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Partners in Flight – U.S. Contacts

PIF National Coordinator: Terry Rich (FWS) terry_rich@fws.gov

PIF Council:

PIF Council Chair: Jerome Ford (FWS) jerome_ford@fws.gov

PIF Council Members

PIF Steering Committee

PIF Steering Committee Chair: Brad Jacobs (Missouri DOC) Brad.Jacobs@mdc.mo.gov

PIF Steering Committee Co-Chair  John Alexander (Klamath Bird Observatory) jda@KlamathBird.org

PIF National Committees

1. PIF State Committee (same as AFWA PIF Working Group)

PIF State Committee Chair: DeeCee Darrow (Missouri Department of Conservation) DeeCee Darrow

PIF State Contacts

2. PIF Federal Agency Committee

PIF Federal Agency Committee Chair: In Transition

Federal Agency PIF Coordinators

U. S. Geological Survey PIF Co-Coordinators

Janet Ruth janet_ruth@usgs.gov

National Park Service PIF Coordinator

Carol Beidleman Carol_Beidleman@nps.gov

Bureau of Land Management PIF Coordinator

Geoffrey Walsh Geoffrey_Walsh@blm.gov

U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service PIF Coordinator

Terry Rich terry_rich@fws.gov

Department of Defense PIF Coordinator

Chris Eberly ceberly@dodpif.org

USDA Forest Service PIF Coordinator

Douglas "Sandy" Boyce daboyce@fs.fed.us

Environmental Protection Agency PIF Coordinator

Myra Price Price.Myra@epamail.epa.gov

Natural Resources Conservation Service

Terrell Erickson Terrell.Erickson1@wdc.usda.gov

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Rich Fischer Richard.A.Fischer@usace.army.mil

U.S. Department of State PIF Coordinator

Antoinette Condo condoaj@state.gov

3. PIF Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Committee

PIF NGO Committee Chair: David Pashley (ABC) dpashley@abcbirds.org

4. PIF Industry Committee

PIF Industry Committee Chair: Tony Melchiors (Weyerhaeuser Co.) tony.melchiors@weyerhaeuser.com

PIF International Science Committee

U.S. Co-Chair: Ken Rosenberg (Cornell Lab of Ornithology) kvr2@cornell.edu

Canada Co-Chair: Peter Blancher (Bird Studies Canada) Peter.Blancher@ec.gc.ca

Mexico Co-Chair: Eduardo Iñigo-Elias (Cornell Lab of Ornithology eei2@cornell.edu

PIF Technical Working Groups

1. PIF International Working Group

PIF International Working Group Chairs

Carol Beidleman (NPS) Carol_Beidleman@partner.nps.gov

Jose Manuel Zolotoff-Pallais (Fundacion Cocibolca) zolotoff@ibw.com.ni

2. PIF Research Working Group

PIF Research Working Group Chair:Janet Ruth (USGS) janet_ruth@usgs.gov

3. PIF Monitoring and Inventory Working Group

PIF Monitoring and Inventory Working Group Co-Chairs

C.J. Ralph (U.S. Forest Service) cjralph@humboldt1.com

John Alexander (Klamath Bird Observatory) jda@KlamathBird.org

4. PIF Communications Working Group and PIF Education Working Group

The Bird Education Alliance for Conservation (BEAC) is functioning in the role of these 2 working groups.

BEAC Chair: Ashley Dayer (Cornell University) aad86@cornell.edu

PIF Regional Working Groups

1. PIF Northeast Working Group

PIF Northeast Working Group Chairs

Randy Dettmers (FWS) Chair randy_dettmers@fws.gov

Gwen Brewer (MD DNR) Vice Chair gbrewer@dnr.state.md.us

PIF Northeast Working Group Website

2. PIF Southeast Working Group

PIF Southeast Working Group Co-Chairs

Rua Mordecai (University of Georgia) rua.mordecai@gmail.com

Sergio Harding sergio.harding@dgif.virginia.gov, Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries

Southeast PIF Website

3. PIF Midwest Working Group

PIF Midwest Working Group Chair

Brad Jacobs (MO DOC) Brad.Jacobs@mdc.mo.gov

4. PIF West Working Group

PIF West Working Group

Mike Green (USFWS) michael_green@fws.gov

PIF West Working Group Website

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