CSIRO UltraFine+ team

The UltraFine+ Research Team combines the expertise of scientists, engineers and technicians from a multidisciplinary background.

The Team’s objective is to deliver the next generation of laboratory soil analyses with analytical tools for mineral explorers to make faster and more qualified decisions on where to explore further.

Ryan Noble

Project Lead/Geochemistry

  • Dr Ryan Noble is a Senior Principal Scientist and Group Leader at CSIRO Mineral Resources working on soil and water chemistry applied to mineral exploration. In the UltraFine+ project Ryan provides strategic direction for the project and works on collaboration between stakeholders, while also contributing soil science and applied interpretation of the results.

Anicia Henne

Deputy Project Lead/Geochemistry

  • Dr Anicia Henne is a Research Scientist at CSIRO Mineral Resources working on regolith science related to mineral exploration in, through and below cover. As part of the UltraFine+ project Anicia provides interpretation of results for industry, QAQC of processes and design, and guides the development of the workflow, coordinating the multidisciplinary approaches needed for the project.

Dave Cole

Machine Learning

  • Dr Dave Cole is a Senior Research Engineer at CSIRO Data61 with an interest in large scale systems of automation, data fusion, and predictive modelling. As part of the UltraFine+ Analytics team Dave develops machine learning workflows integrating geospatial datasets with UltraFine+ soil samples to provide a more detailed context for interpretation.

Fang Huang, 黄放

Machine Learning

  • Dr Fang Huang is a Research Scientist at CSIRO Mineral Resources working on integrating different geological data and build models to assist mineral exploration. For the Ultrafine+ project, Fang works with the analytics team to develop the machine learning workflows and generates landscape analysis results to help soil sample interpretation.

Morgan Williams

Machine Learning

  • Dr Morgan Williams is a geochemist and data scientist at CSIRO Mineral Resources using multimodal datasets to provide predictive analytics for mineral exploration. In the UltraFine+ project, Morgan works with the analytics team to develop workflows for QAQC and integration of UltraFine+ with spatial data to create landscape context for soil samples.

Ian Lau

Spectral Mineralogy

  • Dr Ian Lau is a remote sensing spectral regolith geologist at CSIRO Mineral Resources working on optical satellite calibration and validation, atmospheric aerosol instrumentation, HyLogger instrumentation and soil spectroscopy.  In the UltraFine+ project Ian developed the NIR spectral measurement technique and has worked with the team on spectral quality control, FTIR measurements and related products.

John Hille

Software Engineering

  • John Hille is a Senior Software Engineer at CSIRO Mineral Resources specialising in web, collaboration and cloud technologies. As part of the UltraFine+ project, John works with the analytics team to integrate multidisciplinary soil analytical results and raw data, geospatial data and machine learned outputs into a coherent database to enable deeper data interrogation.

Bobby Pejcic

Spectral Mineralogy

  • Dr Bobby Pejcic is a Senior Research Scientist at CSIRO Mineral Resources who has research interests in analytical chemistry, materials chemistry and geochemistry. As part of the UltraFine+ project, he is responsible for leading the development of FTIR spectroscopy in characterising and understanding the ultrafine soil chemistry in relation to mineralogy and organic content.

Jessica Stromberg

Spectral Mineralogy

  • Dr Jess Stromberg is a Research Scientists and a Team Leader at CSIRO Mineral Resources working on the application and development of spectral and geochemical techniques for ore systems. As part of the UltraFine+ project, she contributes to the development of spectral QA/QC procedures.

Neil Francis

Statistics

  • Mr Neil Francis is a Senior Engineer at CSIRO Mineral Resources working on predictive models in sensing, and sensor fusion methods that utilise forward models and other forms of domain knowledge, in addition to data. In the UltraFine+ project Neil is assisting with statistics and the generation of GIS features that feed into the machine learning workflows that are being applied in the project.

Tenten Pinchand

Technician

  • Ms Tenten Pinchand is a Senior Research Technician at CSIRO Mineral Resources specialising in regolith and plant samples and provides all things related to sample preparation, field work, sample organisation and analysis. For the UltraFine+ project this involved the initial test separations and collection of pXRF, XRD and spectral analyses.

Ravi Anand

Regolith Geochemistry

  • Professor Ravi Anand is a Fellow at CSIRO Mineral Resources with an interest in the field of geochemical exploration, weathering and regolith geoscience. As part of the UltraFine+ project, he is investigating soil geochemistry in landscape context.