Education and Employment
Dr. Ostro received a B.A. in Art History and a B.S. in Ceramic Science from Rutgers University in 1969, a Master's Degree in Engineering Physics from Cornell in 1974, and his PhD in Planetary Science from MIT in 1978. At MIT, Ostro was advised by Gordon Pettengill and studied the radar scattering properties of Saturn's rings and the Galilean satellites using the Arecibo Observatory.
After completing his graduate work and a year as a postdoc at MIT, Ostro served as an assistant professor of Astronomy at Cornell before moving to JPL in 1984. Ostro headed JPL's Asteroid Radar group, and was a member of the Cassini–Huygens RADAR team, studying the moons of Saturn.
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