Michael E. Campana is 2011 President of the American Water Resources Association (AWRA), Professor of Hydrogeology and Water Resources at Oregon State University, and former Director of its Institute for Water and Watersheds. He held the Albert and Mary Jane Black Chair of Hydrogeology and directed the Water Resources Program at the University of New Mexico, where he is now Emeritus Professor. At the Desert Research Institute he was a research hydrologist and taught in the Hydrologic Sciences Program at the University of Nevada-Reno. He has supervised the work of 75 graduate students at three universities.

His expertise includes hydrophilanthropy, water resources policy and management, WaSH (water, sanitation, and hygiene) in developing regions, transboundary water resources, and water and environmental education. Central America, Central Asia, and the South Caucasus are his main international interest areas. In the latter region he directed the NATO-OSCE South Caucasus River Monitoring project from 2002-209. Campana was a Fulbright Scholar (Belize, 1996) and Visiting Scientist at the Research Institute for Groundwater (Egypt, 1995) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (Vienna, 2002). He has served on seven US National Research Council committees, including the Klamath Basin and California Bay-Delta committees.

He founded and runs the nonprofit Ann Campana Judge Foundation, which funds and undertakes WaSH projects in Central America, and serves on the board of Hydrogeologists Without Borders. He is fluent in English with a working knowledge of Spanish.

His degrees include a BS (geology) from the College of William and Mary and MS (hydrology) and PhD (hydrology; mathematics minor) from the University of Arizona. He regularly blogs and Tweets on water and related issues on WaterWired, the internationally renown water blog.

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