VICE PRESIDENT & CHIEF GEOLOGIST / HYDROGEOLOGIST
Michael D. Campbell, P.G., P.H. was born and raised in Lancaster, Ohio, and has lived in Australia (Sydney), California, Colorado, Ohio and Wyoming in the 1960's and early 1970's, and in Texas since 1973. He is well-known nationally and overseas for his work as a technical leader, senior program manager, consultant and lecturer in hydrogeology, mining, and associated environmental and geotechnical fields. He has published widely on subjects ranging from uranium exploration in the south-central region of the U.S. to frontier uranium areas in the U.S to water well technology, rural water systems engineering and associated environmental subjects involving a range of contaminants such as BTEX, solvents, brine, and many others (see Mr. Campbell's publication list).
Over the years, he has progressed through the professional ranks from staff positions to senior positions as Principal and Corporate Consultant status in geology and hydrogeology with environmental and engineering consulting companies, mining companies and the chemical industry.
Mr. Campbell is licensed as a Professional Geologist in the States of Alaska, Mississippi, Texas, Washington, and Wyoming, licensed as a Professional Hydrogeologist in the State of Washington, and holds national professional certifications in geology and hydrogeology. As a professional geologist and hydrogeologist, he has gained a wide range of interdisciplinary experience in business and technical management in the environmental (regulatory, geological and hydrogeological) and mining fields (mineral exploration, mine development and related dewatering and environmental permitting) spanning more than 40 years, many of which involving environmental issues surrounding oil and gas exploration, production and distribution. He was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, made a Fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists, a Registered Member of the Society of Mining & Exploration, and has been designated as a Qualified Person (QP) according to NI 43-101 of the Canadian Securities Administrators, and as a QP in the Australian Stock Exchange (JORC) and London AIM Exchange.
Over the past 17 years, he has served as:
- Managing Partner of M. D. Campbell and Associates, L.P.,
- Principal Hydrogeologist of Environmental Litigation Associates, and
- Principal Instructor and Managing Director for the Institute of Environmental Technology, all located in Houston, Texas.
Mr. Campbell recently joined the staff of I2M Associates, LLC as Vice President and Chief Geologist / Hydrogeologist for the new group based in Houston, Texas. Mr. Campbell manages environmental, forensic, and mining investigations (including uranium and other mineral project assessments, reserves studies, and environmental compliance) for industry and the legal community.
Summary of Academic and Industrial Activity
1960s
In the early 1960s, Mr. Campbell was selected as Undergraduate Research Assistant in the Department of Geology, The Ohio State University and subsequently worked on one of the first long-term, systematic ground-water contamination investigations involving oil-field pollution by open brine disposal pits in Ohio and on early modeling of the associated ground-water flow behavior. He also served as Abstract Editor for the journal: Ground Water. In 1966, Mr. Campbell joined Continental Oil Company (CONOCO), Minerals & Mining Group in Sydney, Australia working on mineral exploration, mining and associated ground-water supply projects. He was also an invited Visiting Lecturer, University of Queensland in Townsville (now James Mason University), lecturing on the principles of hydrogeology. He was credited with a regional discovery of new phosphate deposits in the Northern Territory, Australia, and of a new uranium province in South Australia on the Nullibar Plains. In the late 1960s, Mr. Campbell joined Teton Exploration, Div. United Nuclear Corporation, in Casper, Wyoming as District Geologist for the Eastern U.S. and Canada. He developed ground-water geochemistry as an aid to frontier uranium exploration and for developing models of mineralization in frontier exploration areas.
1970s
In the early 1970s, Mr. Campbell organized the National Water Well Association's Research Facility, becoming its first Director of Research in Ohio and then at Rice University, Houston. Over the period of 1971 to 1976, Mr. Campbell provided technical seminars on hydrogeology for numerous universities and for the U.S. E.P.A. He also served as Technical Consultant to the Water Well Journal. Mr. Campbell managed numerous NWWA and EPA projects and programs dealing with hydrogeology and shallow drilling, shallow-well design; construction, operation and maintenance of wastewater injection wells, technical education and industrial contamination assessment, providing the early guidance to EPA personnel on ground-water sampling, monitoring well construction protocols and hazardous-waste spill response strategy for subsequent RCRA and CERCLA activities.
While at Rice University, he also conducted graduate fellowship research on a variety of subjects and taught seminars for the Department of Geology and Geophysics on hydrogeology and economic geology. Mr. Campbell provided substantial input for the EPA-sponsored National Ground Water Information Center Data Base presently operated by the NGWA. He also was a principal contributor to a number of EPA guidance documents on waste-water injection wells, water-supply wells, and on rapid response to spills endangering ground-water resources. In 1975, he received The Ohioana Book Award in Science for the text: Water Well Technology (12 printings, McGraw-Hill).
Mr. Campbell served as an Associate Editor and on the Editorial Board of the journal: Ground Water from 1966 to 1981. He also conducted numerous consulting geotechnical investigations and served as an invited technical expert and lecturer for the United Nations and UNESCO-sponsored projects on world-wide ground-water exploration and development in igneous and metamorphic rocks in: Sweden, Italy (Sardinia), India, and Tanzania. Mr. Campbell interrupted his graduate work at Rice University after the Master's Degree to join a major engineering and environmental consulting company in 1976 as Director, Alternate Energy, Mining and Environmental Programs. He was appointed as United Nations Technical Expert to review overseas ground-water programs for the period: 1976 to 1981.
1980s
Among the hydrogeological consulting projects managed during the early 1980s, Mr. Campbell conducted a series of investigations on geothermal energy resources in Northern California, Nevada and Utah. Later, he completed a series of investigations for a major geotechnical consulting firm on gasoline leaks at service stations in fractured rocks of north Texas. Remediation projects followed and consisted of pump-and-treat systems with carbon polishers and other methods of remediation available at the time.
Beginning in 1984, Mr. Campbell provided consulting services for a comprehensive mineral exploration program and mining project by reviewing and monitoring revenues/expenses of an $8 million/year joint venture of Swiss and Norwegian interests, and by providing input on the exploration, mining, processing/refining and environmental activities of the project until 1988 (see the Mining Section in Mr. Campbell's Curriculum Vitae). He conducted evaluations on vadose flow of cyanide solutions of the heap-leach precious metals mining project. He and Mr. King were credited with a new gold discovery associated with a thrust fault near Eureka Tunnel, south of Eureka, Nevada. Homestake Mining subsequently discovered the extension in the adjacent Ruby Hill area. A long-term monitoring program was initiated for evaluating flow and hydrochemical behavior in the leach-pad complex, and for providing data for optimizing process control, as well as for regulatory monitoring purposes.
During the period, Mr. Campbell also provided senior technical review and consultation for hydrogeological and hazardous waste projects associated with lignite mining (mine dewatering) and chemical plants for other geotechnical consulting groups in the south-central and northern United States. During the 1980s, Mr. Campbell provided senior technical guidance, review, training, litigation support and consultation on numerous hydrogeological and hazardous waste projects involved in both RCRA and CERCLA programs for major law firms and consulting engineering and environmental companies as well as industry. In the mid-1980s, he joined Law Engineering as Senior Hydrogeologist. Subsequently, he was promoted from Senior Hydrogeologist to the company's highest technical position in the discipline as the Corporate Hydrogeological Consultant (Chief Hydrogeologist), the first such designation in the company's 42-year history. He provided direction and technical support to many of Law Engineering's 52 offices through the U.S. and overseas.
1990s
Mr. Campbell served in a similar capacity with ENSR Consulting and Engineering, and in the chemical industry with DuPont Environmental as the Senior Technical Manger (see far right in photo) for the Gulf Region, which extended from North Carolina to Texas. He had line responsibility for the technical activities of five departments (i.e., Geology, Environmental Specialties, Design & Construction Engineering, and Deep-Well Services). In mid-1990s, he formed M. D. Campbell and Associates, LP (C&A) and provided consultation to industry, and in a pro bono role, served as Principal Instructor for The Institute of Environmental Technology lecturing on waste management, characterization, remediation, hydrogeology and water-supply projects. He also provided technical litigation support and expert-witness testimony in cooperation with the Environmental Litigation Associates.
2000s
Mr. Campbell continued to operate C&A in cooperation with his son, M. David Campbell, also a professional geologist, and other associates. He provided managerial and technical support to consulting companies in Houston and throughout the U.S., and provided litigation support and consulting expert services to industry and the legal community. In 2004, Mr. Campbell was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. From time to time, Mr. Campbell provided technical and management support to Tier I consulting firms in the Southwest U.S. As pro bono work, in 2004, he was appointed as Chair of the AAPG's Energy Minerals Division's Uranium (Nuclear Minerals) Committee, a Member of the Astrogeology Committee, and as a Member of the Advisory Board - Gulf Coast Section of the AAPG's Division of Environmental Geosciences in 2009. Toward the close of the decade, he began to take on an increasing number of oversears consulting projects involving potash, phosphate, iron (magnetite), uranium, rare earth, precious and base metals, while contining to consult on numerous environmental projects in Texas and around the U.S.
2010s
In early 2010, Mr. Campbell joined I2M Associates, LLC, as Vice President and Chief Geologist/Hydrogeologist. His involvment in oversears projects continued to increase, particularly in Australia where he and the I2M team are consulting on a number mining and exploration projects involving base metals and precious metals as well as uranium. He also supports I2M's Seattle office on environmnetal and mining projects. He has been involved in a number of associated mergers and aquisitions via due diligence evaluations. In early 2011, he was elected a Registered Member of the Society of Mining and Exploration (SME of AIME) and later that year he was made a Fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists (SEG). In continuing with his pro bono work, he was elected President (2010-2011) of the Energy Minerals Division of AAPG. For additional information, see below and Mr. Campbell's CV.
Litigation Support
Mr. Campbell provides litigation support and consulting expert services on a wide range of cases involving: hydrogeology, contaminant characterization and transport, hazardous waste, CERCLA and RCRA issues, including activities related to the NCP, and mining practices, mineral exploration, mine dewatering, and water-supply projects. He has served a term on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Environmental Forensics for 2000 to 2003.
For additional information, see contact I2M Associates.
Mergers and Acquisitions
Mr. Campbell and his team have been called upon to handle a number of independent investigations over the years during large corporate mergers and acquisitions. These included regulatory background assessments and mining operations evaluations.
Publications
Mr. Campbell has published widely, most notably: Water Well Technology (McGraw-Hill). In the mid to late 1970s, he served on the Editorial Board of the journal: Ground Water for eight years and served as co-founder and first Director of Research of the NWWA Research Facility at Rice University. He also produced Geology [and Environmental Impact] of Alternate Energy Resources (Houston Geological Society) and Rural Water Systems Planning and Engineering Guide and many other publications and consulting reports over the years on a variety of applied hydrogeologic, geologic, off-world exploration and development, and injection well and hazardous waste subjects. For a complete list of publications, see the publication lists in Mr. Campbell's Curriculum Vitae for recent and historical topics of interest.
I2M Associates maintains an extensive library on environmental, geologic, hydrogeologic, geophysical and mining topics covering the U.S. and overseas. This library provided major contributions to many projects.
Adjunct Activities
Over the past decade, Mr. Campbell has served in pro bono roles as Chair, Uranium (Nuclear Minerals) Committee of the Energy Minerals Division (EMD) of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG). He was elected as President-Elect (2010-2011) of the EMD and was appointed to the Advisory Board - Gulf Coast Section of the AAPG Division of Environmental Geosciences (DEG) in 2009 as well as to the AAPG's Astrogeology Committee.
Mr. Campbell has served in pro bono roles over the years on various other technical committees, such as Chairman, Technical Sessions on Environmental and Mining for the Annual Meeting in Houston of the American Institute of Professional Geologists in 1997 (AIPG-National Conference - see bottom of page) , and as Chairman, Internet Committee for the AIPG Texas Section (AIPG-Texas). As indicated above, he has served The Institute of Environmental Technology (IET) as Principal Instructor and Managing Director for a number of years, and was the Principal Hydrogeologist in the group: Environmental Litigation Associates. He also worked on a number of IET and other field research projects involving environmental, geological, hydrogeological, geophysical and mining issues (see Projects).
