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Stephanie Glenn, PhD

Vice President
Research - Water

Dr. Stephanie Glenn is a Vice President of Research at HARC specializing in ecology and hydrology. She is responsible for the development and supervision of projects to improve the sustainable management of water and ecological resources. Current research includes coastal groundwater quality and quantity, watershed protection and surface water quality, climate resilience, water sustainability and management, ecosystem adaptation and climate impacts on water resources.

Dr. Glenn started with HARC in January of 2003 after graduating with a Doctorate in Environmental Science and Engineering from Rice University in Houston, Texas. Previous degrees include a Master of Science in Environmental Science from Indiana University and a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from Northwestern University. She previously worked for the Department of Energy in Defense Programs as a specialist in information management and technical writing. She has also worked for The National Park Service as an ecological scientist.

Dr. Glenn served as a past member of the Greater Houston Flood Mitigation Consortium and the Flowing Water Technical Committee of the American Water Resources Association. She is a current member of the Sustainability of Engineered Rivers in Arid Lands working group. She serves on the Sediment and Water Quality Subcommittee of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Galveston Bay Estuary Program. She is a founding member and serves on the Advisory Committee and Research Workgroup of the Partners in Litter Prevention council.

HARC’s Strategic Plan

The new Strategic Plan includes new Mission and Vision statements, and comprehensive Strategic Initiatives and Actions that detail how we will develop and implement programs that address the challenges related to sustainability, resilience, and climate equity.

Texas Power Sector at the Crossroads: Challenges and Opportunities in a Changing Climate

Investors, regulators, insurance companies, and rating agencies recognize the risks associated with climate change impacts and call for greater transparency. Beyond the growing push for decarbonization of the energy system, extreme weather increasingly affects business operations and the bottom line. HARC's Climate and Resilience series will feature reports and date meant to better prepare communities for climate change impacts.

Powering the future: Texas power sector pivoting to climate resilience

HARC’s team announces the first in a series of white papers providing an analysis of the risks within Texas’ power sector, Powering the future: Texas Power Sector Pivoting to Climate Resilience. This position paper provides keen insight into the changing landscape of climate risk disclosure and climate change impacts on the power sector in Texas while highlighting key opportunities for resilience during this crucial time.

2020 Annual Report

HARC's 2020 Annual Report highlights the successes of the organization and is the result of ongoing partnerships and innovative collaborations.

Resilience Science Information Network (RESIN)

The purpose of the RESIN portal is to develop and share a comprehensive set of data describing future climate impacts to the Greater Houston-Galveston Region.

Know your Aquifer

The Know Your Aquifer Story Map provides information on what an aquifer is, how aquifers are used, how we get drinking water, and what entities govern their usage.

Headwaters to Baywaters: A Future of Urban Resilience

The goal of the Headwaters to Baywaters initiative (launched by Bayou Land Conservancy (BLC), Buffalo Bayou Partnership (BBP), Galveston Bay Foundation (GBF), Houston Audubon Society (HAS), and Katy Prairie Conservancy (KPC) ) is to ensure healthy lands, healthy waters, and healthy communities for the greater Houston region.

Regional Groundwater Science Partnership

HARC is partnering with multiple organizations to provide a science-based review of groundwater in the Houston-Galveston Region.

Funding Resilience in the Greater Houston Region: Synopsis from a Public-Private Sector Workshop

HARC’s most recent Green Paper offers specific examples of how communities can fund recovery along with considerations that should be given to communities and the natural environment.

Impacts of Assimilative Capacity of Reservoirs

The Impacts of Assimilative Capacity of Reservoirs on Coastal Inflows project assesses assimilative capacity of the Lake Livingston reservoir and related impacts on freshwater inflows to the Galveston Bay estuary.

Find Your Watershed Tool

This application is a tool to find out what watershed you live in, and how your watershed fares in terms of overall environmental health.

State of the Bay: A Characterization of the Galveston Bay Ecosystem

This website provides data describing Galveston Bay and its surrounding watershed, use the navigation area to explore the status, trends, and indicators of bay health that interest you.

Don’t Trash a Good Thing

The goal of this project is to envision a region, free from trash and plastic pollution that impacts our bayous, lakes and rivers that lead to Galveston Bay.

Double Bayou Watershed Protection Plan

The Double Bayou Watershed Protection Plan (WPP) is a locally-developed, voluntary watershed management plan that helps to restore and protect water quality.

Forests and Floods

HARC’s Forests and Floods project is funded by the Texas A&M Forest Service. The initiative compiles and develops data to investigate the role that trees, forest, and canopy cover play in flood mitigation.

Aquatic and Marine Litter and Debris

HARC research team will work with innovative technology methods utilizing Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) and spatial analysis to analyze feasibility of debris patterns and hot spots within the region’s waterways.

Sustainability of Engineered Rivers in Arid Lands (SERIDAS)

SERIDAS studies both the benefits and risks of river engineering and how physical and and social drivers of change may predict an engineered river's functioning in 2040 and in 2060.

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.

The Stormwater Connection from Rain to Recreation

This interactive story map from HARC shares information on land use types and the unique interaction with storm water (rain water plus surface water runoff) each has in our region.