Michael D. Campbell

Michael D. Campbell was born and raised in Lancaster, Ohio. He is a graduate of the Ohio State University in Geology and Hydrogeology in 1966 and of Rice University in Geology and Geophysics in 1976, and has been licensed as a Professional Geologist and Hydrogeologist in TX, LA, MS, WY, WA, and Alaska. Over a career of almost 60 years, he has also been elected a Fellow of all the major geological societies in the U.S., Australia, and the UK. He was a Founding Member in 1977 of the Energy Minerals Division of the AAPG and was elected EMD President (2010-2011) and served as Chairman of the Uranium (Nuclear and REE) Committee (2004-2021).

Since 2010, he has served as Chief Geologist / Hydrogeologist for I2M Associates, LLC and I2M Consulting, LLC based in Houston, Texas and Seattle, Washington. He is well-known nationally and internationally for his work as a technical leader, senior program manager, consultant and lecturer in hydrogeology, mineral exploration and mining and associated environmental and geotechnical investigations. He has traveled extensively throughout the world to such places as Australia, India, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Zambia, South Africa, Sudan, Sweden, Japan, Vietnam, Palau, Sardinia, Italy, France, Germany and other countries on projects for the United Nations (UNESCO) for developing or improving ground-water supplies and for large and small mining companies developing other natural resources, such as [phosphate, potash, uranium, and gold and silver, etc,].

He has published three technical books on uranium, water well technology and other natural resources, and numerous associated reports, technical papers, and presentations in the U.S. and overseas. Mr. Campbell also has served the legal community over the years as an Expert Witness or Consulting Expert for some 40 cases. In pro bono, he served as Principal Instructor for the Institute of Environmental Technology in the mid-1990s. In 2004, he was elected to the Lancaster High School (Ohio) Distinguished Hall of Fame. He and his wife, Mary, raised a family of 5 children, all now with one or more college degrees, and have been married for some 45 years. For more: https://www.i2mconsulting.com/michael-d-campbell-pg-ph-curriculum-vitae/.

He wrote about life in the 1940's and 1950's in the first few chapters of his childhood and young adulthood in Lancaster before the failure of the larger companies in Lancaster (as in "The Glass House."). His Memoirs: "Anecdotes of a Lifetime: Memoirs of a Professional Geologist," is now available in hardback, paperback, and soon in Kindle E-Book covering 17 Chapters, hundreds of footnotes of hyperlinks, many photographs, and an Index of principal characters and special topics of discussion.

His stated objective was to provide a record for his children, their children and grandchildren beyond of a Grandpa of the past, of his life, of his family and friends and associates during the mid-late 20th Century well into the 21st Century and what is it was like as a professional geologist who traveled the U.S. and the world in search of the natural resources needed by America to prosper in a country that has been recently side-tracked into strained political (and personal) relationships creating a serious threat to the American Democracy and to the stability of many American families.

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Now that the Kindle E-Book has been loaded, the reader will have a special experience. While narrating his experiences and encounters in the print versions, he also provides in the Kindle version what other authors of memoirs generally do not. As he entered the Age of the Internet in his memoirs' story line, he began to document his life by archiving photos, reports, papers, etc. which he has been able to add greater detail and further depth to his discussions. As an example, he provides a link to a song by one of his favorite musical groups of the 1960s. And he provides a link to one of Lancaster's favorite painter's works of art. All told, he includes more than 200 such hyperlinks. This makes his memoirs, an unanticipated big works, more than just memoirs. He provides a much larger view of the world of family, relationships, and the politics around him. This added feature is the reason for the somewhat higher production cost and ultimate higher price of the various versions of the memoirs than other books, especially for the Kindle-E-Book version. The fully loaded E-Book (the PDF version containing all user-ready hyperlinks) is available via the hyperlink on the Table of Contents page of the Kindle version.

Note: See: "An American Childhood" by David R Contosta and Philip M. Hazelton (2022) on Amazon, especially the review Mr. Campbell provided, as follows:

"Their book was written about growing up in Lancaster, Ohio. For my memoirs: "Anecdotes of Lifetime: Memoirs of a Professional Geologist," I had not read the book until after I had finished the manuscript of the early chapters and so I had not been influenced by their book. Now that my book has been published, I can relate that David's and Phil H.'s book projects a slightly different perspective that depended upon which part of Lancaster one grew up. The book's first four chapters cover the period covered by David and Phil's paperback. Note: Phil H. is a major character early in my book as well. It is interesting to see the different perspectives prevailing while being good friends throughout our lives."