Austin Mast Explained

Austin R. Mast
Workplaces:Florida State University
Alma Mater:University of Wisconsin-Madison

Austin R. Mast is a research botanist. Born in 1972, he obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2000. He is currently a professor within the Department of Biological Science at Florida State University (FSU), and has been director of FSU's Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium since August 2003.[1]

One of his main areas of research is the phylogenetics of Grevilleoideae, a subfamily of Proteaceae. In 2005 he showed the genus Banksia to be paraphyletic with respect to Dryandra,[2] Collaborating with Australian botanist Kevin Thiele, he subsequently transferred all Dryandra taxa to Banksia, publishing over 120 taxonomic names in the process.[3] The change has been adopted by the Western Australian Herbarium,[4] although has met with some controversy.[5]

He has previously worked on the Deep South Plant Specimen Imaging Project, which created a repository of annotated high-resolution digital images of plant specimens within the East Gulf Coastal Plain, a region with a very high diversity of rare and endangered plants.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Dr. Austin Mast . Faculty and Research, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University . 2007-03-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20070407172633/http://www.bio.fsu.edu/faculty-mast.php. 7 April 2007 . live.
  2. Mast, Austin R. . Eric H. Jones . Shawn P. Havery . 2005 . 18 . 1 . An Assessment of Old and New DNA sequence evidence for the Paraphyly of Banksia with respect to Dryandra (Proteaceae) . . 75–88 . 10.1071/SB04015.
  3. . 2007 . The transfer of Dryandra R.Br. to Banksia L.f. (Proteaceae) . . 20 . 63–71 . 10.1071/SB06016.
  4. Web site: Why dryandras have changed their name . 20 May 2008. FloraBase: Western Australian Flora. Thiele, Kevin. Department of Environment and Conservation, Western Australian Herbarium . 2009-12-16 . Kevin Thiele.
  5. Web site: Feature: Blooming controversy . 14 September 2009 . Australian Life Scientist . O'neill, Graeme . IDG Communications . 2009-12-16 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090925201757/http://www.lifescientist.com.au/article/318404/feature_blooming_controversy . 2009-09-25 .
  6. Web site: Deep South Plant Specimen Imaging Project. 2007-05-08 .

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