Michael
D. Campbell, P.G., P.H.
Michael
D. Campbell, P.G., P.H.SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE
Mr. Campbell was born and raised in Lancaster, Ohio, and has lived in
California, Australia (Sydney), Wyoming, Colorado and Ohio in the 1960's and
early 1970's, and in Texas since 1973. He is well-known in the U.S. 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 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.
He serves as Principal of M. D. Campbell
and Associates, Principal Hydrogeologist of Environmental
Litigation Associates, and Principal Instructor and Managing Director
for the Institute of Environmental
Technology, all located in Houston, Texas.
For more details, see Mr.
Campbell's Curriculum Vitae.
SUMMARY OF ACADEMIC AND INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY:
1960's
In the early 1960's, 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. During
1964 and 1965, he 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, lecturing on the principles of hydrogeology. He
was credited with a regional discovery of new phosphate deposits in the Northern
Territory, Australia. He also collected and shipped specimens of Middle
Cambrian trilobites from the Northwest Queensland and the Northwest Territory
to the Department of Geology at The Ohio State University where they were
subsequently incorporated into the paleontology study program.
1970's
After returning to the U.S., in the early 1970's, Mr. Campbell organized
the National Water Well Association's Research Facility becoming its first
Director of Research in Ohio and then located 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. During the period, Mr. Campbell managed research projects
on a number of EPA-sponsored projects and programs dealing with hydrogeology
and shallow drilling, shallow well design, construction, operation and maintenance,
injection well, technical education and industrial contamination assessment.
These projects provided 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. Four EPA guidance
documents were also produced as a result of those projects.
In 1975, he received The Ohioana Book Award in Science and Technology for the text: Water Well Technology (12 printings, McGraw-Hill). Mr. Campbell was appointed as United Nations Technical Expert to review overseas ground-water programs for the period: 1976 to 1981. While at Rice University, he also conducted graduate fellowship research on a variety of subjects and taught courses in hydrogeology and economic geology. Mr. Campbell, and his staff, provided substantial input ( i.e., the first 7,000 abstracts) to the EPA-sponsored National Ground Water Information Center Data Base (now presented as Ground Water OnLine) presently operated by the NGWA. He served on the Editorial Board of the journal: Ground Water from 1966 to 1981. During the period, he 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. After Mr. Campbell's graduate work at Rice University in 1976, he joined a major engineering and environmental consulting company as Director, Alternate Energy, Mining and Environmental Programs. He produced the text, Geology {and Environmental Considerations} of Alternate Energy Resources, published by the Houston Geological Society in 1977.
1980's
Among the hydrogeological consulting projects conducted during the early
1980's, Mr. Campbell conducted a series of investigations on geothermal energy
resources in Northern California, Nevada and Utah. He also 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.
Beginning in 1984, as President of Campbell, Foss and Buchanan, Inc, Mr. Campbell co-managed a mineral exploration program and mining project as operating consultant (handling revenues/expenses of more than $8 million/year) and as technical consultant for exploration, mining, processing/refining and environmental activities (see the Mining Section in Mr. Campbell's Curriculum Vitae. Later, he conducted an evaluation of vadose flow of cyanide solutions through a heap-leach production site. He and his team made a new gold discovery associated with a thrust sheet near Eureka Tunnel, south of Eureka, Nevada. Homestake subsequently discovered the extension. A long-term monitoring program was established 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 mid-1980's, Mr. Campbell provided senior technical review and consultation for hydrogeological and hazardous waste projects associated with lignite mining (mine dewatering) and at chemical plants for other geotechnical consulting groups in the south-central and northern United States. During the late 1980's, 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.
1990's
While with Law Engineering, Inc., he was promoted from Senior Hydrogeologist
to the company's highest technical position in the discipline, Corporate Hydrogeological
Consultant, 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 in numerous environmental and geotechnical projects.
Mr. Campbell served in a similar capacity with ENSR Consulting and Engineering,
and in the chemical industry, with Du Pont Environmental, as the senior regional
technical manger of five departments for the Gulf Region, which extended from
North Carolina to Texas. In the mid-1990's Mr. Campbell returned to private practice providing consulting services to industry,
lectures on waste management, characterization, remediation, hydrogeology
and water-supply projects for The
Institute of Environmental Technology. He continued to serve as a Senior
Associate Editor for the journal Ground Water, and provided
technical litigation support and expert-witness testimony.
2000's
In private practice leading M. D. Campbell and Associates, Mr. Campbell manages a full-service environmental and geological consulting service in concert with a number of associates and other consulting firms. He is also conducting ongoing research projects on a range of technical subjects. For further information, see the MDC&A web site (here).
LITIGATION SUPPORT:
Mr. Campbell has provided litigation support and expert testimony on a range 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 on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Environmental Forensics (see 2000 - 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 1960's, he severed as the Abstract Editor, and later served on the Editorial Board of the journal: Ground Water for eight years. He also served as co-founder and first Director of Research of the NWWA Research Facility at Rice University. He produced the text: Geology [and Environmental Considerations] of Alternate Energy Resources (Houston Geological Society) 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 and presentations, see the publication lists in Mr. Campbell's Curriculum Vitae for each discipline of interest. He maintains an extensive library of more than 300,000 citations on environmental and mining topics covering the U.S. and overseas.
M. D. Campbell and Associates (MDC&A) provides the specialized requirements of industry and Tier I and II environmental consultants (i.e., large national and local groups) by providing an adjunct source of senior- and project-level hydrogeologic, geologic, engineering, and litigation support (both defendant and plaintiff) on RCRA and CERCLA projects. A cataloged professional library with more than 300,000 citations forms a sound literature base for projects in Texas, the U.S. and overseas. MDC&A personnel provide regular input to the new web resources portal (IET Internet Web Resources) as up-to-date sources for regulatory and technical information.
The MDC&A team has extensive experience, proven integrity, and demonstrated resourcefulness to bring to client projects. Using the appropriate technology, techniques and equipment, MDC&A personnel provides clients, industry and Tier I and II consultants, as well as attorneys with strong support in developing optimum solution(s) for simple as well as complex projects. This philosophy is a MDC&A policy, offered to clients for the purpose of minimizing project costs as well as reducing unnecessary litigation. For additional information on the activities and capabilities of the group, see the website of Campbell and Associates.
Mr. Campbell continues to manage M. D. Campbell and Associates as Principal, serves on various technical committees, served 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 Information Committee for the AIPG Texas Section (AIPG-Texas). He continues to serve The Institute of Environmental Technology (IET) as Principal Instructor, and is the Principal Hydrogeologist in Environmental Litigation Associates (ELA). He also works on a number of field research projects involving environmental and mining issues ( see Projects In Progress at the end of Mr. Campbell's Curriculum Vitae).
Mr. Campbell's Curriculum Vitae
Mr. Campbell's Litigation Summary
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Last Update: January, 2006
