IBP Contact details

Postal Address: P.O. Box 1346; Point Reyes Station, CA 94956-1346; USA.
Shipping Address: 11435 State Route One, Suite 23; Point Reyes Station, CA 94956; USA.
Telephone: (415) 663-1436
FAX: (415) 663-9482

Staff List

David F. DeSante Tel: (415) 663 2052. Dave, IBP's founder and Executive Director since 1989, also created IBP's first major project, the MAPS program. Dave was also the founder and first editor of Bird Populations, IBP's journal of global avian demography and biogeography. Dave obtained his Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from Stanford University in 1973. Before founding IBP, Dave held Assistant Professor positions at Stanford University and Reed College, and served for ten years as Program Director of the Point Reyes Bird Observatory's Terrestrial Research Program.

Mary Chambers Tel: (415) 663 1436. Mary graduated from the University of California, Davis in 2005 with a degree in Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology. Subsequently, she worked as a field biologist in California, Hawaii and Ecuador, including two seasons banding at an independent MAPS station in the central valley of California. She started with IBP in June 2007 as a MOMS intern in Arizona and is now working in the office as a staff biologist.

Amy Finfera Tel: (415) 663 1436. Amy was a MAPS intern in Indiana the summer of 2000, before she graduated from Bowling Green State University with her bachelor’s degree in Biology. In her seven years of field work, she spent time with IBP on several projects, including several summers supervising MAPS interns in IN, KY, and MO, MAWS banding in Georgia, as well as two winters on the Gitmo project. Amy also had many other field positions during that time, including: nest searching in IN; point counts and banding in VA and LA; transect surveys for birds in MS and AR; telemetry with American Woodcock in northern MI; bird, mammal, and tick surveys in NY and CT; and exotic ectoparasite surveys on mammals, herps, and birds in FL. Amy joined the office staff in March of 2007.

Danielle (Dani) Kaschube (née O'Grady) Tel: (609) 625 0767. Dani has a bachelor's degree in Zoology from the University of Calgary, where she studied longspurs, shrikes, bats, and arthropods. She joined the MAPS program as a summer intern in Kansas in 1995 and moved to an IBP office position in the fall of the same year. Her field duties have included time as a MAPS supervising biologist and extensive time as an instructor with the Bander Training program. Dani is the MAPS Coordinator and, in addition, her office duties include data analyses and coordinating the bander training program.

Nicole Michel Tel: (360) 606 5631. Nicole started at IBP as a MAPS intern at Yosemite in 1997 and worked as a supervisory field biologist, staff biologist, and banding instructor from 1998-2005. She has a Bachelor's degree in Biology from Willamette University and is currently attending graduate school at Tulane University. Nicole continues to work part-time for IBP, primarily on MAPSPROG programming.

Teryk Morris Tel: (415) 663-2050. Teryk graduated from San Jose State University with a bachelors degree in Environmental Studies. After an internship with the NASA Remote Sensing Lab he went to work for the Bay Area Shared Information Consortium doing GIS, GPS and remote sensing work before spending 8 years as a computer scientist at Adobe Systems Incorporated. Teryk joined the Office staff in December of 2006.

M. Philip Nott Tel: (415) 663 2050. Phil received his doctorate from Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee and joined the Institute in October 1998. His dissertation work explored the influence of abiotic factors on herpetological species distributions and on the population dynamics of the Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow; an endangered species endemic to the southern Florida Everglades. Phil is the Institute's landscape ecologist and is also responsible for the development of improved survivorship and productivity models. Currently, his research focuses on relationships between avian population dynamics, climate, weather and habitat patterns for DoD Legacy funded MAPS stations and federally funded stations in the Pacific Northwest.

Peter Pyle Tel: (415) 663 2053. Peter has been working for IBP since 1996. He attended Swarthmore College during the 1970's while also working seasonally on the Hawaii and other Pacific Forest Bird Surveys. He first worked for Dave DeSante in 1980 when he did an internship for PRBO's Palomarin and Farallon Island Landbird Program, of which Dave was in charge. In 1985 Peter became a biologist on the Farallon Islands, a post he held until 2003. During this period and while splitting time with IBP in 1996-2003, Peter has authored or co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed papers and three books. Among banders he is best known for his Identification Guide to North American Birds, Part 1, which includes detailed criteria for ageing and sexing landbirds in the hand. He is currently working on Part 2, which will cover waterbirds, raptors, and gamebirds.

James F. Saracco Tel: (415) 663 2054. Jim completed his Ph.D. at North Carolina State University in September 2001. Jim’s dissertation work was on interactions among frugivorous birds and fruiting plants in Puerto Rico. He has since studied bryophyte responses to forest management in Washington (University of Washington), forest bird ecology in southeast Alaska, and has taught ornithology at the University of Alaska Southeast. Jim currently directs IBP's winter banding progams, MoSI and MAWS, and is studying spatial and temporal patterns in demographic parameters derived from MAPS data.

Rodney B. Siegel Tel: (415) 663 2051. Rodney joined IBP as a research scientist in 1998, after completing his Ph.D. dissertation on parrot energetics and life-history evolution. He directs the Sierra Nevada and Avian Inventory programs at IBP. His current research interests focus on the effects of land management practices such as livestock grazing, forestry, and fire suppression on avian community structure and dynamics. Rodney has published papers in numerous peer-reviewed journals, and serves on the Executive Steering Committee of California Partners in Flight.

Ron Taylor Tel: (415) 663 1436. Ron graduated from Humboldt State University in 1984 with a degree in Wildlife Management. Since then, he has worked with the US Fish & Wildlife Service identifying duck wings and as a botanist and fisheries crew leader for the US Forest Service. He has also monitored desert tortoises for an environmental consulting firm and studied Black-capped Vireos for the Nature Conservancy. Ron started with IBP in 2004 as a MAPS intern at the Flathead Indian Reservation. He has since been a supervisory biologist for MAWS and MAPS and is now a staff biologist working in the office.

Bob Wilkerson Tel: (415) 663 2051. Bob has a Bachelor's of Science degree in Ecology and Systematic Biology from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. He started working for IBP in the summer of 1998 as a Yosemite Inventory/Sierra Meadows intern. As a five-year IBP veteran Bob has worked, supervised, and trained field crews throughout the Sierra Nevada, Washington State's Olympic and North Cascades National Parks, and in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Bob serves as a biologist for IBP's Sierra Nevada and Avian Inventory programs and also as the Cuba Project Coordinator. In the office Bob spends most available time on data verification, report production, intern hiring, and project coordination.

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