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 Summary of Experience
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 technolgy, 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 has been licensed as a Professional Geologist in the States of 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 almost 40 years, many of which involving environmental issues surrounding oil and gas exploration, production and distribution.
He serves 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.
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 jointventure of Swiss and Norweign 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 was 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 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 (C&A) and provided consultation to industry, and lectured on waste management, characterization, remediation, hydrogeology and water-supply projects for The Institute of Environmental Technology. He also provided technical litigation support and expert-witness testimony in cooperation with the Environmental Litigation Associates.
2000s
Mr. Campbell continues to operate C&A in cooperation with his son, M. David Campbell, also a professional geologist, and other associates. He provides managerial and technical support to consulting companies in Houston and throughout the U.S., and provides litigation support and expert-witness services to industry and the legal community. In 2004, Mr. Campbell was elected as a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. From time to time, Mr. Campbell provides technical and management support to Tier I consulting firms in the Southwest U.S.
Litigation Support
Mr. Campbell provides litigation support and expert testimony 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 recently served a term on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Environmental Forensics for the term: 2000 to 2003.
For additional information, see Mr. Campbell's Litigation Summary.
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, and injection well and hazardous waste subjects. For a complete list of publications, see the publication lists in Mr. Campbell's Curriculum Vitae for each discipline of interest.
C&A maintains an extensive library on environmental, geologic, hydrogeologic, geophysical and mining topics covering the U.S. and overseas. This library provides major contributions to many C&A projects.
Adjunct Activities
Mr. Campbell serves as Managing Partner for M. D. Campbell and Associates, L.P., but also serves on various technical committees, such as Chairman, Technical Sessions on Environmental and Mining for the Annual Meeting in Houston of the American Institute of Professional Geologists (AIPG-National) in 1997, and as Chairman, Internet Committee for the AIPG Texas Section (AIPG-Texas). As indicated above, he continues to serve The Institute of Environmental Technology (IET) as Principal Instructor and Managing Director, and is the Principal Hydrogeologist in the group: Environmental Litigation Associates. He also works on a number of IET and C&A field research projects involving environmental, geological, hydrogeological, geophysical and mining issues (see Recent Projects).
Itinerary
To contact Mr. Campbell for arranging a meeting on a possible engagement while he is in the area, please note his present travel itinerary:
Austin, TX: Week of January 17, 2005
Phoenix, AZ: Week of March 7, 2005
San Antonio, TX: Week of March 28, 2005
Montgomery, AL: Week of April 18, 2005
Del Rio-Eagle Pass, TX: Week of May 9, 2005
Denver, CO: Week of August 1, 2005
San Antonio, TX: Week of September 12, 2005
Lexington, KY: Week of October 10, 2005
Columbus, OH: Week of October 17, 2005
Birmingham, AL: Week of March 27, 2006
Denver, CO: April 26-28, 2006
Oklahoma City, OK: Week of May 1, 2006
Austin, TX: Week of June 12, 2006
Oklahoma City, OK: Week of August 14, 2006
San Antonio, TX: Week of October 16, 2006
Oklahoma City, OK: Week of December 4, 2006
Denver, CO: Week of February 5, 2007
Huntsville, AL: Week of April 16, 2007
Out of Country: Week of May 1, 2007
Corpus Christi, TX: Week of May 20, 2007
Dallas, TX: Week of May 28, 2007
Albuquerque, NM: Week of July 9, 2007
Denver, CO: Week of August 13, 2007
Albuquerque, NM: Week of August 13, 2007
Corpus Christi, TX: Week of October 22, 2007
Albuquerque, NM: Week of December 17, 2007
New Orleans, LA: Week of December 17, 2007
Lake Charles, LA: Week of January 21, 2008
Corpus Christi, TX: Week of January 28, 2008
Columbus, OH: Week of February 25, 2008
Mobile, AL: Week of April 21, 2008
Austin, TX: Week of April 28, 2008
If you wish to arrange a meeting, contact C&A office in Houston, Texas or Mr. Campbell directly via cell phone for pressing matters: 713-248-1708.
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