Joy Mast
Professor Joy Mast teaches courses in forest ecology, soil science, geology, biogeography, field methods, and geographic information science. She earned her B.S. in both geography and zoology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and her M.S and Ph.D. in geography from the University of Colorado-Boulder. She was a tenured associate professor at Northern Arizona University before her Carthage appointment.
Among her current research projects, Prof. Mast is studying forest disturbances in the Southwest related to crown fires, insect epidemics, and severe droughts. She has garnered numerous federal research grants for her work. Her prior research has been published in a number of professional journals, including the Journal of Biogeography, Professional Geographer, and Ecological Applications. She was an associate editor for the international research journal Plant Ecology, served on the editorial board of both the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, and currently serves on the editorial board of the journal Physical Geography. She has served as president of the Association of American Geographers Biogeography Specialty Group, and was the editor of their publication “The Biogeographer.”
Prof. Mast runs the Dendroecology Research Lab at Carthage. She joined the Carthage faculty in 2002.