Houston Advanced Research Center

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2011 to Dec 31, 2011

Signed

Nov 19, 2012

Return Version

2011v1.2

Gross Receipts

$8,818,759

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

HARC's Clean Energy Program includes integrative and collaborative work in these areas: combined heat and power generation; energy market tools and products; strategic energy planning; clean energy applications analysis; and clean energy policy analysis. HARC will focus on new sources of energy including hydrogen and biomass and the technological, regulatory, market and social barriers to their adoption.The mission of the Clean Energy Program is to accelerate development and adoption of clean energy technologies, services, and policies that enhance regionalsustainability. HARC bridges gaps between basic research in energy services and technologies and their commercial implementation by taking the lead in convening stakeholders and in crafting and executing research, verification, and validation.

Activity 3

HARC's Land, Water, People Program emphasizes the interactions between ecological, hydrological and social processes, particularly as they relate to biodiversity, water quality and quantity, ecosystem informatics, economics, policy, and social and institutional analysis. The goal of the Program is to link ecosystems and water resources to sustainable development through improved understanding of the interactions between humans and these resources and to facilitate regulatory, institutional and technological change and improved decision making. Our approach is interdisciplinary, integrating ecological, physical and social sciences with information technology. HARC compiles and manages numerous databases describing environmental quality, biological and water resources, and aquatic and terrestrial habitats in its region. Information technology tools and geographic information systems allow HARC to translate the data into information through the development of environmental indicators, statistical results, spatial and temporal analysis and to analyze changes in ecosystem and water resources. Non-market valuation techniques are used to provide economic representation of the ecosystem, and help decision-makers achieve more effective stewardship. Using a variety of qualitative and quantitative social science methods, HARC examines the social values people attach to natural resources and what they consider to be appropriate resource management approaches.

Filer

EIN

76-0038315