Summary of Academic & 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.

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.

During the period, Mr. Campbell managed numerous NWWA and EPA projects and programs dealing with hydrogeology and shallow drilling, shallow well design, construction, operation and maintenance, injection well, 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.

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 provided substantial input for the EPA-sponsored National Ground Water Information Center Data Base presently operated by the NGWA. He served on the Editorial Board of the journal, Ground Water, from 1966 to 1981. During this period, 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. 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.

1980's
Among the hydrogeological consulting projects during the early 1980's, 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 northern 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 initiated an evaluation of vadose flow of cyanide solutions of a heap-leach precious metals mining project wherein he was credited with 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 period, Mr. Campbell 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 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., Mr. Campbell was promoted from Senior Hydrogeologist to the company's highest technical position in the discipline as 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. Mr. Campbell served in a similar capacity with ENSR Consulting and Engineering, and in the chemical industry with Du Pont Environmental as the senior technical manger of five departments for the Gulf Region which extended from North Carolina to Texas.

Presently, Mr. Campbell provides consultation to industry, lectures on waste management, characterization, remediation, hydrogeology and water-supply projects for The Institute of Environmental Technology. He also provides technical litigation support and expert-witness testimony.

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. (see
Mr. Campbell's Litigation Summary).

Publications
Mr. Campbell has published widely, most notably: Water Well Technology (McGraw-Hill). In the mid to late 1970's, 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 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. He maintains an extensive library of more than 300,000 citations on environmental and mining topics covering the U.S. and overseas.

Company Profile
M. D. Campbell & Associates (C&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. C&A personnel are also well-connected to the Internet for up-to-date sources of regulatory and technical information.

The C&A team has extensive experience, proven integrity and demonstrated resourcefulness to bring to client projects. Using the latest technology, techniques and equipment, C&A provides clients, industry, Tier I and II consultants and attorneys with strong support in developing optimum solution(s) for simple as well as complex projects. This philosophy is a C&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 M. D. Campbell and Associates. As Principal he manages M. D. Campbell & Associates while serving on various technical committees. Mr Campbell served as Chairman of Technical Sessions on Environmental and Mining for the American Institute of Professional Geologists (AIPG & Texas AIPG). He also is Principal Instructor of The Institute of Environmental Technology (IET), and Principal Hydrogeologist for ELA.

Field research projects involving environmental and mining issues (see "Projects in Progress" -- Curriculum Vitae).

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