Geoscience Integrations

Geodata Analysis, Peer Review, and Economic Risk Modeling

Robert Lankston

Geoscience Integrations was formed in 2006 by Robert (Bob) Lankston. Bob's career spans over 35 years in academia, major petroleum companies, and geophysical contracting and consulting. While on the research faculty at Washington State University in the late 1970's, Bob integrated surface and borehole geophysical data for evaluation of the Columbia Basin for hydrocarbon, uranium, and groundwater resources. In the 1980's, he taught geophysics and computer methods in geology at the University of Idaho and the University of Arkansas. In the petroleum industry in the 1990's, Bob was involved with shallow target geophysics and environmental GIS management as applied to downstream environmental issues. In upstream, he worked in geopressure analysis, AVO analysis and fluid replacement modeling, and facilitation of value of information studies. Residing now in Missoula, MT, Bob complements his consulting and contract work by serving as a faculty affiliate at the University of Montana, his Ph.D. alma mater, where he mentors students in various aspects of exploration geophysics and annually teaches a course on seismic analysis.

Bob is a member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG). He has provided peer review of articles for the journals and the special publications of various professional societies. Bob is a founding member of the Tobacco Root Geological Society (TRGS).

The common thread through Bob's career has been integration of methods, data, and concepts. Nowhere has this been more evident than in his work of the past seven years in gas hydrate exploration where shallow target geophysical methods, specifically in the Arctic, are an important complement to an understanding of the geopressure regime and the fluid effects on logs and seismic data in successfully exploring for gas hydrate. Seismic and well log techniques commonly used to understand geopressure in deepwater environments to minimize drilling hazards provide the core concepts in gas hydrate exploration in the Gulf of Mexico and other areas.

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