Mike Hightower

Program Director, New Mexico Produced Water Research Consortium

Mike is Program Director of the New Mexico Produced Water Research Consortium, a joint effort by the NM Environment Department and New Mexico State University.  Mike is retired from Sandia National Laboratories where he worked for 38 years in the areas of aerospace, weapons, energy, and natural resources research, analysis, and engineering.  Mike holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in civil and environmental engineering from New Mexico State University.  For the past three decades he has focused on the development of innovative distributed energy and water treatment and desalination technologies to improve critical infrastructure and natural resource security, resiliency, and sustainability.