Richard Glenn
In Support of the Coming Generations: Lessons Learned and Lessons Taught from Subsistence Hunting and Whaling Communities on the North Slope
About the Speaker
Richard Glenn served on the leadership team of the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (ASRC), where he was Lands Manager, Senior Vice-President of Lands, and Executive Vice-President of Government and External Affairs (2000-2021). He was an elected At-Large director of ASRC for most of that time. Prior to that he was a North Slope Borough department director (1990-2000) and worked for multiple NSB Borough Mayors as a department director (Barrow Gas Fields and Energy Managment Departments). Richard was a geologist for his Alaska Native regional and village corporation subsidiaries (1985-1990) and has a variety of experience in river and sea ice research, oil, gas and mineral exploration and development projects, and permafrost to name a few. For many years Richard directed his volunteer efforts at bringing visiting Western researchers and local Inupiat subject matter experts together to share and pursue a common knowledge of the Arctic environment. His academic research at UAF was in geologic mapping of the Brooks Range (Master of Science) and studying the physical properties of sea ice (PhD "all but dissertation"). While at UAF (1985-1991), Richard had various professional internships and scientific side jobs and was appointed the first president of the UAF chapter of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES). In Utqiagvik (Barrow), Richard served as crew member and co-captain of his extended family's subsistence whaling crew, performed in one of Utqiagvik's Inupiaq dance/drum groups, and even had a musical side job playing keyboards in a local band. Richard served as chairman of the Ilisagvik College Board of Trustees, on the North Slope Borough Planning Commission and on numerous other local, state and federal boards, most related to arctic education and research issues. He served on the Polar Research Board and was twice appointed by the US President to the United States Arctic Research Commission. Richard has a bachelor's (1985) and master's degree (1991) in geology. In 2020, Richard was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Alaska Fairbanks for his contributions to the advancement of arctic science and engineering. Richard is married to Vera Lincoln, with a blended family of nine daughters and four grandchildren, and lives in the hills behind Ester, Alaska.