Our Guest rockstar

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Dr Ryan Noble is a Senior Principal Research Scientist and the Group Leader of Predictive Mineral Systems Science at CSIRO. He has a BSc and MSc in Soil Science from the University of Tennessee and a PhD in Applied Geology from Curtin University. Following his PhD, Ryan joined CSIRO 19 years ago and has worked on numerous regolith and groundwater geochemistry projects related to gold, base metal, Ni and U mineral exploration. His current project interests are focused on getting the maximum information from soil samples with the least effort, ML driven landscape classification and developing the UltraFine+® technique. Ryan is a Past-President and a Fellow of the Association of Applied Geochemists. He is a Board member of the Australian Geoscience Council and the current Chair of Australian Earth Science Education. He is the 2024 recipient of the Roy Woodall Medal. Ryan likes wine of most varieties, sports of most varieties and home-handyman projects even though he’s not that handy.

Ryan has hung out at CSIRO for nearly 20 years working on soil and water geochemistry for mineral exploration, mainly.