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Alan Charles Noble is an Australian engineer, technology entrepreneur and founder of the not-for-profit marine conservation organisation, AusOcean.

Career

Noble studied at the University of Adelaide and Stanford University where he obtained a Bachelor of Electronic and Electrical Engineering and a Master of Computer Science Artificial Intelligence respectively.

He worked in established and startup technology companies in Japan, Silicon Valley and Australia. Some of his start-up technology ventures lead to acquisitions by Nokia and Riverbed Technologies.^[1]

In 2007, Noble joined Google Australia, and in 2008 he was appointed as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Adelaide.^[2]

Since the late 2000s, Noble has acted as an advisor to the Australian government, including for the Chief Scientist of Australia, the Australian Information Commissioner and the Government 2.0 Taskforce.^[3]

In 2013, Noble founded StartupAUS, following on from his experience with the angel investment group SA Angels (2007-2014). In 2014, he appeared in Episode 1 of That Startup Show.^[4]

In 2014, Noble was appointed as a director of the board of the South Australian Museum.

In 2016, the Kangaroo Island Wilderness Trail was surveyed by Google Street View Trekker under Alan Noble's lead.^[5] Noble also bought property on Kangaroo Island that year. Meanwhile, his property at Willunga became the first residential customer of Redflow's ZCell off-grid energy storage system.^[6]

AusOcean

In 2017, he established the not-for-profit organisation AusOcean^[7] with marine scientist, Professor Sean Connell^[3] with the objective of lowering the cost of long-term marine environmental monitoring. In 2018, AusOcean's Network Blue sensor rigs received approval to be deployed in the Port River in South Australia.^[8] Immanuel College in Adelaide is one of Network Blue's partners.^[9]

Noble resigned from his position as head of engineering at Google Australia in 2018 to focus on AusOcean.^[10]^[11]^[12] AusOcean is planning to do some underwater survey work in Smith Bay, Kangaroo Island in December 2018.^[13]^[14]

References

1. ^{{Cite news|url=https://tedxadelaide.com.au/2017/alan-noble-2017-speaker-profile/index.html|title=Alan Noble {{!}} 2017 Speaker Profile|date=2017-10-19|work=TEDxAdelaide|access-date=2018-10-23|language=en-US}}
2. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.adelaide.edu.au/adelaidean/issues/24441/news24484.html|title=Adelaidean -- Google director is new professor|website=www.adelaide.edu.au|access-date=2018-10-23}}
3. ^¹{{Cite web|url=http://www.ausocean.org/about|title=About AusOcean|website=www.ausocean.org|access-date=2018-10-23}}
4. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.larkspurcomms.com/blog/|title=blog|website=Larkspur Communications|language=en-AU|access-date=2018-10-23}}
5. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.environment.sa.gov.au/Home/Full_newsevents_listing/News_Events_Listing/161013-premier-launches-kiwt|title=Department for Environment and Water|access-date=2018-10-23|language=en}}
6. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2016/10/googles-aussie-engineering-boss-has-gone-off-the-grid/|title=Google's Aussie Engineering Boss Has Gone Off The Grid|date=2016-10-19|work=Gizmodo Australia|access-date=2018-10-23|language=en}}
7. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.smartcompany.com.au/startupsmart/news-analysis/ausocean-founder-alan-noble-passion-ocean-support-network-why-left-google/|title="The courage of my convictions": AusOcean founder Alan Noble on his passion for the ocean, his support network, and why he walked away from Google - SmartCompany|date=2018-07-26|work=SmartCompany|access-date=2018-10-23|language=en-US}}
8. ^{{Cite web|url=https://estuary.org.au/2018/08/partnering-with-ausocean-for-seagrass-monitoring/|title=Partnering with AusOcean for seagrass monitoring – Estuary Care Foundation SA|website=estuary.org.au|language=en-AU|access-date=2018-10-23}}
9. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.ausocean.org/projects/networkblue|title=Network Blue|website=www.ausocean.org|access-date=2018-10-24}}
10. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.smartcompany.com.au/startupsmart/news-analysis/google-australias-engineering-head-alan-noble-steps-down-focus-nonprofit-ausocean/|title=Google Australia's engineering head Alan Noble steps down to focus on a "moonshot" nonprofit - SmartCompany|date=2018-02-26|work=SmartCompany|access-date=2018-10-23|language=en-US}}
11. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/noble-calls-time-on-google-australia-stint/|title=Noble calls time on Google Australia stint {{!}} ZDNet|last=Duckett|first=Chris|work=ZDNet|access-date=2018-10-23|language=en}}
12. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.afr.com/technology/google-photos-creator-anil-sabarwhal-heads-home-to-australia-20180223-h0wjow|title=Google Photos creator Anil Sabharwal heads back to Australia|date=2018-02-23|work=Financial Review|access-date=2018-10-23|language=en-US}}
13. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.theislanderonline.com.au/story/5740720/kipt-releases-updated-seaport-plans-to-shareholders/|title=KIPT releases updated seaport plans to shareholders|last=Gorton|first=Stan|date=2018-11-06|work=The Islander|access-date=2018-11-06|language=en}}
14. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-31/google-heavy-hitter-alan-noble-turns-to-marine-conservation/10447746|title=Engineering director quits Google for conservation sea change|date=2018-10-31|work=ABC News|access-date=2018-11-10|language=en-AU}}