Gibson Consulting is a sole proprietorship of Richard I. Gibson, a geologist and geophysicist with more than 25 years of experience. The company provides interpretive geoscience services, focused around, but not limited to, gravity and magnetic data in exploration and environmental problems, as well as training programs in these areas. Our products all have, we feel, significant “value added”. We do not believe in charging big bucks for copying existing things or re-hashing the literature; in almost all of our studies, we add interpretation and integration. Our experience is world-wide, but one of our main areas of interest since 1989 has been the Soviet Union. In connection with our Soviet Union studies, we have no arrangement with any Soviet entity to sell their data; our work is our own interpretation of such data, or, in some cases, re-casting published information in a more usable form (Rapid Research Services) and integrating it with other interpretations. When diverse data exist in relatively inaccessible or differing forms, one of our goals is to create products that make such data more useful and comprehensive (e.g., Exploration Atlas of Turkmenistan).

Recent projects have included numerous regional tectonic studies of rifted margins of the world, using satellite-derived gravity data.

Dick Gibson serves as a consultant to Thomasson Partner Associates, Inc., a Denver firm that creates integrated hydrocarbon plays, primarily in the United States.

Gibson Consulting is a Montana company based in Butte, established in 1989 (originally in Golden, Colorado). Dick Gibson is also the former resident manager at the Judson Mead Geologic Field Station of Indiana University, where he taught (for free) in the summer field programs for 14 years.