A few month's ago, I2M's Chief Geologist, Michael D. Campbell, P.G., P.H., Founding Member of EMD (1977), Past President of EMD (2010-2011), and current Chair of the Uranium (Nuclear and REE) Committee since 2004, was asked to assemble a historical account of the Energy Minerals Division (EMD), from its beginning before 1977 to 2018.
The Energy Minerals Division's 2017 review article was recently released in the Journal of Natural Resources Research (Springer) on the activities in the unconventional and alternative energy fields (EMD's Chief Editor: Frances J. Hein).
Uranium, Thorium, Rare Earths and Other Metals in Cretaceous Age Basement Rocks: A Source for a New Uranium District in Tertiary Age Sediments of the McCarthy Basin (a New Middle Cretaceous Age Impact Crater?), and an Associated New Metallogenic Locale Adjacent to the Death Valley, Eastern Seward Peninsula, Alaska.
I2M’s Michael D. Campbell, P.G., P.H., Senior Principal and Chief Geologist/Hydrogeologist, has been recently appointed to the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Earth Science and Geology. This is one of the new journals offering open access and rapid publication at minimal page costs that Mr. Campbell has been supporting in the past few years.
Andrew Thomas, Editorial Coordinator of Madridge Publishers also asked for an editorial of his expectations for this journal. Mr. Campbell expanded on his expectations in an earlier editorial for this new journal (here).
I2M Consulting’s Michael D. Campbell, P.G., P.H., Senior Principal, has just released an updated editorial as a pre-publication version. He opines that there were times in history when a democratic people did not speak up or take action when the politics of the day were seriously out of step with the general populace.
We are living now through a similar period in our history that because of the widespread news media accounts, they allow us to observe and determine what is right and what is wrong, true or false, truth is truth.
The adage that independent industry scientists should avoid speaking out on politics is illogical now that we know that some politicians can be seriously flawed, in particular the current president of the U.S.
As of June 1, 2018, the group previously operating under I2M Associates, LLC separated into two independent corporate entities with different objectives of geoscience and engineering services.
Michael D. Campbell, P.G., P.H., I2M’s Chief Geologist/Chief Hydrogeologist, released the 2018 Annual Report of the Uranium (Nuclear and REE) Committee to the Energy Minerals Division‘s Executive Committee and Commodity Chairs for their Annual AAPG-EMD Conference on May 19, 2018 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Mr. Campbell is Chair of the UCOM and scheduled to present a summary of the UCOM report via teleconference on the 19th. The full report is now available (here).
I2M Senior Principal/Project Manager, M. David Campbell, P.G., also serves as Special Consultant to UCOM.
A number of the I2M Consulting are members of the UCOM Advisory Group, i.e., Roger W. Lee, Ph.D., P.G.; James L. Conca, Ph.D.; David Rowlands, Ph.D., P.G.; and Samuel B. Romberger, Ph.D.
Members of the I2M Consulting group are also serving the UCOM as Special Consultants: Ruffin I. Rackley and Bruce Rubin.
I2M’s Michael D. Campbell, P.G., P.H., C.P.G., and AIPG-TX Vice-President, Eastern Texas, presented and contributed to numerous lectures/demonstrations for the GeoDayz -2018 event to 75 students and about 10 young professionals attending the rigorous 2-day event dodging some rain between lectures and tented drilling, sampling, and logging demonstrations.
All told, some 53 lectures/demonstrations were presented during the Saturday and Sunday by the staff of Hydrex, the host of GeoDayz-2018, and by I2M’s Mr. Campbell and Henry M. Wise, P.G., C.P.G., President, AIPG Texas Section (as rotating, personalized periods) to small groups of students (see schedule and photos in the Guidebook).
Below is a link to the Post-GeoDayz Guidebook containing a table of contents, the program flyer, the list of sponsors, introductions, summaries of presentations/demonstrations, PDFs of the presentations /demonstrations, and the photo history of the GeoDayz – 2018 event held in Nacogdoches, Texas in late February:
GeoDayz-2018-FinalGuidebook.pdf
The GeoDayz event was presented for two reasons: 1) to introduce students and new professionals to what they can expect after graduation when they initiate their careers in the environmental or other industries, and 2) to raise money for the Texas Section Scholarship Fund.
I2M is supporting professional training, either in person by presenting lectures or supporting professional societies, or on-line via the I2M Web Portal and through publications by I2M personnel and associates (see below).
For further reports by the AIPG and AIPG Texas Section regarding the GeoDayz Event, see (more).
I2M’s Chief Geologist/Chief Hydrologist, Michael D. Campbell, P.G., P.H., C.P.G., and I2M’s Senior Project Manager, M. David Campbell, P.G., supported by Henry M. Wise, the Senior Remediation Specialist in Texas for SWS Environmental Services (now NRC) have updated the IET Guide first released in 2013 for the graduates of the IET program, and other professional groups, including the members of the Houston Geological Society and the AIPG in Texas.
The original report has been updated and revised into a paper format by the Journal of Geology and Geoscience, based in London (here). This will also provide a wider readership around the world because subsidence and faulting in soft sediments are not limited to the Houston area.
We are conducting the final review and are adding an author and subject index because of the substantial literature base of the subjects treated.
Michael D. Campbell, P.G., P.H., EVP and Chief Geologist/Chief Hydrogeologist of I2M Consulting and Henry M. Wise, P.G., Senior Remediation Specialist, of SWS Services, in the Houston, Texas area, both of whom are affiliated with the AAPG’s Energy Minerals Division’s Uranium (Nuclear and Rare Earth) Committee, have republished their popular paper on media bias against uranium recovery and nuclear power development in the new, international Journal of Geology and Geoscience. The pre-publication version is available now (here).
The journal editors encouraged the I2M team to publish an updated version of the paper that now connects to the I2M Web Portal. This will provide a broader audience to the issues discussed in the paper.
