Michael D. Campbell, P.G., P.H., C.P.G. Biography

Vice President

Michael D. Campbell, P.G. (TX, LA, WA, WY, AK), P.H. (WA), C.P.G.
President & CEO
The I2M Corporation (Texas), and
Principal and Chief Geologist/Chief Hydrogeologist
I2M Consulting, LLC,
Houston (Katy), Texas 77494
Email: mdc@i2mconsulting.com | Cell: 713-248-1708

Michael Campbell holds a Bachelor’s degree in geology and hydrogeology from the Ohio State University (1966) during which he was appointed the Undergraduate Research Assistant to Dr. Jay H. Lehr, Assistant Professor of Hydrogeology. He has since spent a number of tours of duty overseas in Australia, Southeast Asia, and Africa working for American companies on natural-resource development and environmental projects. Ten years later he was awarded the Eleanor and Mills Bennett Fellowship and received a Master’s degree in geology and geophysics from Rice University in 1976. He has been involved in a range of mining and associated environmental projects including uranium exploration and mining, and precious metal exploration and mining projects on behalf of a number of major U.S., Australian, and English companies (more).

Over more than 50 years, he produced EPA-sponsored guidance documents and associated reports involving groundwater resource development and associated contamination assessment and abatement. He has produced three technical books, many papers and reports, and has served on a number of editorial boards of the major technical journals in his field. He founded the NWWA Research Facility and served as its first Director of Research in Columbus, Ohio and at Rice University in Houston, Texas (more).

Mr. Campbell has served in senior positions with Law Engineering and Environmental, Inc. rising from Senior Hydrogeologist to Chief Hydrogeologist of all 50 Law Engineering offices in the U.S., as Senior Program Manager and Chief Hydrogeologist for ENSER Consulting and Engineering, Inc., and as Regional Technical Manager and Chief Hydrogeologist for the DuPont Environmental Group (Southern District) with line responsibilities covering DuPont plants and other plants over a seven-state area (i.e. the Southern District). He managed five operating departments: Geology, Environmental Specialties, Deep Well Disposal, Conceptual Engineering, and Engineering/Construction, together involving approximately 60 technical personnel. He provided technical and administrative leadership, staff recruitment, training, quality control/assurance, risk assessment on various DuPont projects and represented DuPont on technical committees in Superfund projects in the US. After leaving DuPont in the mid-1990s, Mr. Campbell went into private practice as Principal Geologist/Hydrogeologist for M. D. Campbell and Associates, L.P. and served the mining and environmental industries and the legal community for almost 30 years.

In 1992, Mr. Campbell developed, managed and served in pro bono as Principal Instructor for a 220-Hr Evening Semester Course: Introduction to Environmental Technology, held on the campus of North Harris Community College (now called the Lone Star College) for the purpose of cross-training petroleum geologists, engineers, chemists, and others as a prelude to entering or advancing in the environmental field. Mr. Campbell lectured on RCRA and CERCLA and on hydrogeology and project management, and selected and managed guest lecturers from industry, government and prominent universities. The course was later located at the Houston Engineering and Scientific Society (HESS) and by The Institute of Environmental Technology. Almost 400 men and women graduated from the program by 1997. During the period, he also served as Principal Hydrogeologist for Environmental Litigation Associates in support of the legal community.

In 2010, he joined I2M Associates, LLC in Houston and Seattle as Vice President and Chief Geologist/Hydrogeologist and works on both mining and environmental projects in many parts of the U.S. and around the world. I2M provides consulting services in uranium, precious metals, base metals, and other commodities, such as phosphate, potash, geothermal energy, combined with the associated and other environmental projects located in the U.S. and around the world, with an emphasis on Australia, Vietnam, and in a number of African countries (Tanzania, Niger, and South Africa). In 2018, I2M Associates, LLC separated into two groups with Mr. Campbell managing I2M Consulting, LLC, retaining the I2M Web Portal and associated domain: I2MAssociates.com.

Over the years, Mr. Campbell has been elected a Fellow in the Society of Economic Geologists (SEG), a Fellow in Geological Society of America (GSA), a Fellow (and Chartered Geologist) in the Geological Society of London (GSL), a Fellow in the Australian Institute of Geoscientists (AIG), a Registered Member in the Society of Mining and Exploration (SME), and was a Founding Member of the Energy Minerals Division (EMD) of AAPG in 1977. Since 2004, he has served as Chairman of the Uranium (Nuclear and Rare Earth Minerals) Committee of the EMD (Mr. Campbell stepped down as Chairman in 2021 after 17 years of service as Chairman (more)). He was elected President of EMD in 2010-2011.

Mr. Campbell has been a member of AIPG since 1976 and served as Chairman, Conference Environmental and Mining Sessions, 1997 AIPG Annual Conference in Houston, Texas (more). More recently, he received the National AIPG Section Leadership Award (more) and (Presentation in Anchorage). He is a Certified Professional Geologist (CPG- 3330) by AIPG, and a Certified Professional Hydrogeologist by the American Institute of Hydrology. He is licensed as a Professional Geologist in the States of Texas, Louisiana, Washington (and Professional Hydrogeologist), Wyoming, and Alaska.

Mr. Campbell is the Senior Author of Chapter 9 in the AAPG-EMD Memoir 101, entitled: Energy Resources for Human Settlement in the Solar System and Earth’s Future in Space with Chapter 9 as the final chapter in the Memoir, which is available in a revised PDF format entitled:

“Nuclear Power and Associated Environmental Issues in the Transition of Exploration and Mining on Earth to the Development of Off-World Natural Resources in the 21st Century (PDF).”

Over the past few years, he and his associates have published a number of papers in support of new international journals, e.g., Journal of Geology and Geoscience (based in London). See the 2017, 2018, and 2019 publications (here). There are other papers now in preparation, one on a gold-silver mine project in Nevada, one on coal utilization, one on rare earths, and another for the 2020 Annual Report of the Uranium Committee of the AAPG’s Energy Minerals Division. For additional information on Mr. Campbell’s background and publications see (more) and on the I2M Consulting, LLC YouTube Channel containing videos and associated PDF versions with links to references: (here).

In early 2023, Mr. Campbell published his memoirs entitled: “Anecdotes of a Lifetime: Memoirs of a Professional Geologist.” See more about the book (here).