Laurence A. Soderblom (born 1944) is a geophysicist with the Astrogeology Science center at the United States Geological Survey in Flagstaff, Arizona, where he has served as Chief of the Branch of Astrogeology.

[2] He earned Bachelor of Science degrees in geology and physics from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and a PhD in planetary science and geophysics from Caltech.

[1] Soderblom has been involved in several JPL planetary missions.

He also served on the science teams of the Deep Space 1 and Cassini–Huygens missions.

He has participated in missions ranging from Venus to Neptune and each of the planets in between.