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. This diversification allows the Principals involved to focus on their fields of expertise to better serve the clients.
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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 […]
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 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.
The I2M team led by Chief Hydrogeologist, Michael D. Campbell, C.P.G., P.G., P.H., and supported by M. David Campbell, P.G., VP and Senior Program Manager; Roger W. Lee, Ph.D., P.G., I2M’s Senior Geochemical Associate; and by Glen A. Collier, C.P.G., P.G., Senior Hydrogeologist of Hydrex Environmental, LLC in Nacogdoches, Texas have collaborated to produce the paper published by the Journal of Geology and Geoscience, London entitled:
“Anatomy of a Case of Elevated Chloride in the Shallow Black Hand Sandstone Providing Rural Drinking Water Supplies in North-Central Ohio, USA: Hydrogeological and Hydrochemical Characterization by Major and Minor Elements, and δ2H, δ18O, δ13C and Tritium (3H) Isotopes.”
Authors pre-publication copy (here).
Summary Abstract: Elevated chloride concentrations (>250 mg/l) were reported to the Ohio State Environmental Protection Agency in the early 2000s by a rural resident using groundwater for domestic consumption from a private water well. An adjacent commercial oil and gas pipe yard had spread relatively small volumes of oilfield brines from 1998 through 2000 to control dust during summers and to de-ice on the property driveways; county and state agencies used halite and other brines on surrounding rural county and state highways during the winter. There are multiple sources in the immediate area that might have contributed to local groundwater by varying degrees, resulting in elevated chloride concentrations reported in the samples from the […]
This is a brief update published by the Journal of Geology and Geoscience and produced by I2M’s Michael D. Campbell, P.G., P.H., Henry M. Wise, P.G. (of SWS Environmental Services, LLC), and I2M’s M. David Campbell, P.G. based on the 2017 Mid-Year Report from the Chair, Uranium (Nuclear and Rare Earth) Committee of the Energy Mineral Division (AAPG) was released November 26, 2017. Some 99 nuclear power plants in the U.S. remain in operation, a few are scheduled for retirement, two new reactors are being built in Georgia. Japan is slowly upgrading and re-starting its fleet of nuclear power plants after Fukushima. China is rapidly building some 25 new plants and hundreds more are planned, along with financially underwriting the construction of more than 40 projects in joint ventures with other countries.
Russia too is building new nuclear plants at home, and they are testing a “fast breeder” design that consumes most waste. Russia is building nuclear plants on behalf of other countries as well, and providing financing in competition with China. India has turned to nuclear to ramp up electricity production to match population growth rates and is also working on “fast breeder” designs. Other countries are also building nuclear plants funded from a variety of sources. For the details on the above topics and more, see: (more).
The discussions on the […]
Michael D. Campbell, P.G., P.H., I2M’s Chief Geologist / Chief Hydrogeologist, presented a summary of the 2017 Mid-Year Report of the Uranium (Nuclear and REE) Committee to the Energy Minerals Division‘s Executive Committee and Commodity Chairs during their Mid-Year Teleconference on November 27, 2017. Mr. Campbell is Chair of the UCOM. The full report is now available (here).
I2M Senior Project Manager, M. David Campbell, P.G., also serves as Special Consultant to UCOM.
A number of the I2M Associates 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 Associates group are also serving the UCOM as Special Consultants: Ruffin I. Rackley, and Bruce Rubin.
M. David Campbell, P.G., I2M’s Vice President and Senior Program Manager, announced today the release of the new and improved version of the I2M Web Resource Portal. It has all of the previous 5,000 resources, plus current resources. It now has intelligent phrase search capability and has been online since 2009. It is also designed for mobile devices and is much faster than the previous version hosted on Cloud servers.
The I2M Web Portal consists of topical selections that are strongly influenced by the interests of I2M management, Associates, and Clients, made available as a public service to other geoscientists, and the discerning general public. The topical coverage is illustrated in the graphic provided (here).
Historical search summaries can now be obtained with phrase searches on such topics as the development of small nuclear reactors (e.g., using the term: SMR, and by filtering for sequential date or relevance), developments of particular uranium properties and associated mines (e.g., use Mestena Mine), and on new environmental methods and remedial solutions to managing difficult contaminants (e.g., using term recalcitrant).
An Index to the subjects covered are listed on the Home page under major and subcategory category headings, while the most recent entries (last 90 days) are available on the What’s New page. Additional information about the web portal is available at About this Portal.
I2M Associates personnel also […]
Members of the the I2M Natural Resources Group (consisting of Michael D. Campbell, I2M’s EVP and Chief Geologist, Roger W. Lee, I2M’s Senior Associate, and M. David Campbell, I2M’s VP and Senior Mining Geologist, just published a paper in the Journal of Geology and Geoscience in London on the mining potential southwest of Hanoi, Vietnam in the Đồi Bù District, Hòa Bình Region (here). The area was visited during January, 2014. The key conclusions of the assessment were that subject area has not been explored in any detail for many decades. The Chinese (pre-1900s), and then later the French (pre-1960s), conducted basic reconnaissance and produced the early maps of the area. During the 1960s and 1970s, the USSR explored the area in some detail via outcrop sampling programs and some drilling, but many sites within the area of interest remain poorly investigated and untested. The general area has received only superficial investigation to date of the obvious fracture zones and associated shallow geological structures. Since the late 1980s, the Vietnamese Geological Survey and associated universities have undertaken the systematic assembly and cataloging of all available geological, geophysical, and mining information on the reported minerals present in Vietnam, almost all of which is in Vietnamese.
Based on the samples taken from outcrop, evaluated, and tested at an international laboratory, the authors […]
Michael D. Campbell, I2M’s Chief Geologist/Chief Hydrogeologist, has been appointed to the Editorial Board of the new Journal of Geology and Geoscience, based in London. Their first volume will be published in the near future.
The Corresponding Editor, Mark Angelo, asked Mr. Campbell to prepare an editorial expressing his expectations for the new journal. His editorial is now available (here).
I2M Consulting, LLC offers experienced geologists, hydrogeologists, and other scientists with many years in environmental assessments, including remediation management, mineral exploration and mining, project management, and mergers and acquisitions. Related areas of expertise include forensic and feasibility studies in the environmental and mining industries, and environmental site assessments, due diligence assessments, and impact assessments in addition to brownfield redevelopment and management (as well as grant application assistance) in the U.S, and for state and the U.S. governments, and the legal community around the U.S.
