Caleb Strom

Caleb Strom is an early‑career planetary scientist who grew up in Wildomar, California. He was inspired to pursue planetary science after watching Carl Sagan’s Cosmos. His first research experience in the field began as an undergraduate at the Scripps Isotope Geochemistry Research Laboratory at UC San Diego. He went on to study rock glaciers on Mars for his M.S. at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

For his Ph.D. at the University of North Dakota, along with a graduate student internship at JPL, he investigated the geology and interiors of the moons of Uranus and the dwarf planet (1) Ceres. Between completing his Ph.D. and starting his postdoctoral work, he conducted independent research in San Francisco, developing AI‑based anomaly detection models for planetary image data.

He is currently at JPL studying Neptune’s moon Triton as part of his postdoctoral research—his new “research homeworld,” as he likes to say.