Personnel
Torbjorn Von Strokirch
Chief GeophysicistBSc (Hons) Geology, University of Melbourne
Member Australian Society of Geophysicists
Member Environmental and Engineering Geophysics Society
Torbjorn has some 28 years experience as a geophysicist. He also has experience working as a mineral exploration geologist, financial analyst on advanced exploration and mining projects and has completed studies on diverse topics such as international shipping and global taxation comparisons.
Torbjorn has diverse experience working in numerous countries of the world, including Australia, China, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Lao PDR, Mongolia, New Zealand, PNG, Philippines, Russia, Sweden, Thailand, USA and Vietnam.
He has worked with a variety of international mining and exploration organizations, including Mobile Energy Minerals, CRA Exploration, Minenco and Rio Tinto Exploration.
Following geophysical UXO survey and data interpretation experience gained with the Geophysical Research Institute of the University of New England, Armidale NSW, Torbjorn joined Milsearch as its in-house geophysicist in early 2003 and has since designed and implemented a wide variety of UXO assessments and remediation projects utilizing advanced geophysical techniques for the identification of discrete UXO items and munitions burial pits. He has been instrumental in developing and applying geophysical search techniques on several sites to meet the extremely high standards of search confidence required by the Victorian EPA appointed auditing system. This has included the field proofing of large coil electromagnetic Metal Mapper detector systems manufactured by Milsearch under license from Geometrics Inc of the USA.
Other projects with Milsearch include geophysical remediation searches for a variety of clients in NSW, Queensland, Western Australia and Victoria, as well as off-shore tasks for Milsearch in Lao PDR, Vietnam and East New Britain Province PNG. He designed and executed geophysical searches for Old Chemical Weapons at the Defence Marrangaroo Site in 2009 and again at the Defence Columboola site. He is well versed in field data gathering, processing and interpretation of discrete metallic item anomaly data, employing a variety of Geometrics, Geonics, Telemag and Minelabs single and multi-sensor systems. He is particularly experienced in discrete item interpretations within highly magnetic and conductive soil site conditions.
Torbjorn has also conducted critical reviews of underwater towed magnetometer surveys for UXO in PNG waters by Fugro Ltd and recently participated as part of the Milsearch-EGS marine survey team conducting extensive towed magnetometer surveys for Grange Resources and the Port of Albany Authority, Western Australia.
