Dr. Caroline Juang is a climate scientist, STEM advocate, and artist.

Caroline earned her Ph.D. in Earth and Environmental Science at Columbia University in August 2025, where she trained as a hydroclimatologist and fire scientist. For her dissertation, Caroline investigated the climate drivers of western US wildfire since the 1980s, under the advisorship of Dr. Park Williams. She integrated statistical methods with analyses of large-scale datasets from remote sensing products, government agency data, and ocean-atmosphere model outputs. Caroline is a National Science Foundation GRFP Fellow (2021-2025), NASA FINESST Fellow (2020-2023), a Future Space Leader Fellow (2019), and a Brooke Owens Fellow (2017).

Prior to her Ph.D., Caroline received her Bachelor’s degree in Earth & Planetary Sciences and a minor in Environmental Sciences and Public Policy from Harvard University. She was a project coordinator at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/ Science Systems and Applications, Inc. in Greenbelt, MD, where she launched and managed the NASA citizen science project Landslide Reporter with Dr. Dalia Kirschbaum.

In her work and in her service, Caroline promotes inclusivity and accessibility in the Earth science and aerospace communities through public engagement, the practice of inclusive teaching pedagogy, and mentorship. She completed Columbia University’s Teaching Development Program (TDP) Foundational Track. She has served as a member of the Executive Team for the Brooke Owens Fellowship, co-founded SpaceInterns.org (a platform for aerospace-related resources and an opportunities database) and was a Steering Committee member of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Geosciences (AAPIiG). She is also an artist who creates illustrations, comics, and digital designs for her science, to express her love for space, and to creatively tell stories. ​

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