Deborah A. Clark

Deborah A. Clark is a Research and adjunct professor of Tropical Ecology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. For over 40 years she has worked with her partner David B. Clark on the zoology, botany, geosciences, ecology, and climatology of the rain forests in Costa Rica.

Personal life Deborah A. Clark met her long-time collaborator and husband David B. Clark on their first day of college at the University of North Carolina in 1966. They have been married since 1970.

Education Clark graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1970 with a B.A. in biology. She then went on to the University of Wisconsin, where she completed a Ph.D. in zoology with a minor in botany in 1978. With funding from numerous source they implemented a 42-meter tower to measure atmospheric carbon as part a global array dedicated to studying climate change.