Clara Deser
- Senior Scientist, NCAR
Dr. Clara Deser is a Senior Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and former head of the Climate Analysis Section. She earned her B.S. degree in Earth and Planetary Sciences from MIT in 1982, and Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Washington in 1989 under the supervision of John Michael Wallace. Deser was a postdoctoral fellow with Maurice Blackmon at the Cooperative Institute for Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado, and joined the National Center for Atmospheric Research in 1997.