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Likun Chen

Manager
Information Technology

Likun Chen is the Information Technology Manager at HARC. He is responsible for IT support and admins all HARC onsite and cloud-based servers. He also utilizes his full-stack background and expertise in multimedia post-production to develop data visualization and web applications for multiple projects. Mr. Chen graduated with a Master’s degree in Geography at Oregon State University with a focus on geographic data visualization.

He received his B.S. in Geographic Information Systems with a concentration in Web Mapping from Huazhong Agricultural University.

Prior to joining HARC in 2014, Likun was an IT staff member at Shanghai Donghui Vocational School, where he provided high quality IT support for over 5000 teaching staff and students and as a Web Developer for travel and tourism industry.

Community Energy Systems

HARC, along with project partners University of Houston and Fugro are creating a user-friendly webtool to promote the deployment of District Energy Systems (DES) and community microgrids.

County & Watershed Statistics

This dataset includes Polygons of county and watershed statistics..

USGS NLCD Imperviousness 2016

This dataset includes USGS NLCD Impervious Cover for Texas 2016.

USGS NLCD Imperviousness 2011

This dataset includes USGS NLCD Impervious Cover for Texas 2011.

USGS NLCD Imperviousness 2006

This dataset includes USGS NLCD Impervious Cover for Texas 2006.

USGS NLCD Imperviousness 2001

This dataset includes USGS NLCD Impervious Cover for Texas 2001.

NOAA CCAP Land Cover 2016 22-Class

This dataset includes NOAA CCAP Land Cover for Texas Gulf Coast 2016 22-Class.

NOAA CCAP Land Cover 2010 22-Class

This dataset includes NOAA CCAP Land Cover for Texas Gulf Coast 2010 22-Class.

NOAA CCAP Land Cover 2006 22-Class

This dataset includes NOAA CCAP Land Cover for Texas Gulf Coast 2006 22-Class.

NOAA CCAP Land Cover 2001 22-Class

This dataset includes NOAA CCAP Land Cover for Texas Gulf Coast 2001 22-Class.

NOAA CCAP Land Cover 1996 22-Class

This dataset includes NOAA CCAP Land Cover 1996 22-Class.

Hurricane Harvey Temperature & Salinity

This dataset includes Hurricane Harvey water temperature and salinity as shown in Hurricane Harvey app.

Hurricane Harvey Power Outages by Zip Code

This dataset includes Hurricane Harvey power outages by zip code as shown in Hurricane Harvey app.

Hurricane Harvey Ozone Animation

This dataset includes Hurricane Harvery Ozone visualization as shown in Hurricane Harvey app.

Hurricane Harvey Ozone

This dataset includes Hurricane Harvey Ozone readings as shown in Hurricane Harvey app.

Hurricane Harvey Hazardous Releases

This dataset includes Hurricane Harvey hazardous releases as shown in Hurricane Harvey app.

Hurricane Harvey Flow

This dataset includes Hurricane Harvey flow as shown in Hurricane Harvey app.

Hurricane Harvey FEMA Modeled Damages

This dataset includes Hurricane Harvey FEMA modeled damages as shown in Hurricane Harvey app.

Hurricane Harvey BTEX Animation

This dataset includes Hurricane Harvey BTEX data visualization as shown in Hurricane Harvey app.

Hurricane Harvey BTEX

This dataset includes Hurricane Harvey BTEX data as shown in Hurricane Harvey app.

Superfund Sites

This dataset includes Texas Superfund sites provided by Texas Commission on Environmental Quality used in Hurricane Harvey app.

USGS HUC Texas Watershed Boundaries

This dataset includes USGS HUC polygon watershed boundaries for HUC6, 8, 10, and 12 levels.

TWDB Texas River Basins

This dataset includes Texas Water Development Board polygon boundaries of Texas rivers and basins.

H-GAC Eco Logical Features

This dataset includes eco-logical polygons from the H-GAC Eco-Logical assessement project circa 2008.

Galveston Bay Estuary Program Watershed Boundaries

This dataset includes polygons of Galveston Bay Estuary Program watershed boundaries.

US DOE Power Plants

This dataset provides US Department of Energy Power Plant locations.

ERCOT Power Demand

This dataset includes ERCOT Zone loading power demand data used in Hurricane Harvey story map application.

Planning for Community Resilience

This toolkit includes recent examples of Climate Adaptation Plans and information includes strategic directions to apply to the City of Houston as a model.

Texas Solar Calculator

HARC, in partnership with the State Energy Conservation Office (SECO), has developed the Texas solar calculator to help you find out. It is easy to use and requires only a few inputs by you

Summarizing Hurricane Harvey’s Environmental Impacts

After Hurricane Harvey, HARC mobilized swiftly to acquire and process data about the flooding and related environmental impacts, such as storm-related spills, pollutants, Superfund site impacts, water quality, air quality, and power generation.