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February 7, 2003 DIRECTOR OF WATER RESOURCES PROGRAM TO SERVE ADDITIONAL YEAR ON NATIONAL GROUND WATER ASSOCIATION BOARD Michael E. Campana, director of the Water Resources Program at the University of New Mexico, and Albert J. and Mary Jane Black Professor of Hydrogeology in the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department, has been selected to serve an additional one-year term as vice president of the National Ground Water Association (NGWA) Board of Directors. Campana will be responsible for the duties of chair of NGWA’s Association of Ground Water Scientists & Engineers (AGWSE) Division. The NGWA is a membership organization representing more than 15,500 U.S. and international ground water professionals, including contractors, equipment manufacturers, suppliers, and ground water scientists and engineers. NGWA provides members, government and the general public with the scientific knowledge and economic guidance necessary to responsibly develop, protect and manage the world’s ground water resources. Campana, who is also a professor of hydrogeology in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at UNM, joined the NGWA in 1973. He was co-chair in 1997 and ‘99 and chair (2000) of the AGWSE Annual Conference, and has served as past secretary-treasurer of AGWSE. He formerly served on the editorial board and was book editor for Ground Water, a peer-reviewed NGWA journal for ground water hydrologists. Campana has been the director of the UNM’s Water Resources Program since March 1997. During that time he has guided the interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary program to its position as one of the nation’s premier master’s degree programs in Water Resources. Campana’s research interests are centered on water resources, with strong interests in the water resources of developing countries (especially those in Latin America), appropriate technology, water resources sustainability and transboundary water resources issues. Prior to his tenure at UNM, Campana worked at the Desert Research Institute and the University of Nevada-Reno, where he taught in the university’s hydrologic sciences program and conducted research in Great Basin regional hydrogeology. He has continued this work at UNM and helped initiate programs in hydrogeocology and environmental science. He is a volunteer for Lifewater International and has worked for Lifewater in Panama and Honduras. Campana, who is currently on sabbatical from UNM (2002-03), received his Ph.D. in hydrology from the University of Arizona and is a member of the American Institute of Hydrology. Campana is also president/treasurer and founder of the Ann Campana Judge Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to funding and conducting work in developing countries related to water, health, sanitation and community empowerment. For more information on NGWA, call (800) 551-7379 or visit the NGWA website at www.ngwa.org. # # #

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