Carroll Belser received her BA from Mary Baldwin College in 1975 and her MS in Wildlife Biology from Clemson in 1981.
She has worked with several bird species over the years. Her master's research documented the seasonal time budget of the Eastern Bluebird.
After completing her Master's she worked for the US Forest Service on Red-cockaded Woodpeckers and later at the Charleston Museum on wading birds, Boat-tailed Grackles, and migrant songbirds.
Carroll has also worked as an interpreter at the Belle W. Baruch Nature Center, a nature tour guide at Kiawah Island, and as a research assistant on bird collision with communication tower and power line projects.
In 1990 Carroll returned to Clemson and began work at the Clemson University Radar Ornithology Laboratory.