BBL Staff Contact Information

Welcome to the Bird Banding Laboratory's Staff Contact Information Page.  

Our general contact information is BBL@usgs.gov or 301-497-5807.

For policy questions, contact the BBL Chief, Bruce Peterjohn, bpeterjohn@usgs.gov or 301-497-5646.

For assistance with:

• auxiliary marking (color bands, radios, dyes, etc.)
• status codes, age and sex designations, and other biological banding data
• international bands/rings
• individually marked birds
• requests to double band birds

Contact Danny Bystrak at DBystrak@usgs.gov or 301-497-5796

Data Requests

For assistance with:

• requests for banding data
• verification of banding or encounter data

Contact Kathy Klimkiewicz at dbystrak@usgs.gov or 301-497-5795.

Editing Section

For Staff for assistance with: 

• banding data submission
• band transfers 
• banding locations
• modifying previously reported banding data
• "issue problems", "previously cataloged", "up-for-banding" requests
• replaced bands
• tax letters 
• band orders (see Online Band Order Form)
• band inventories

Contact Karen Jones at Karen_Jones@usgs.gov or 301-497-5794.  For assistance with biological banding data, see Danny Bystrak under Permits.

Processing Section

Please report band encounters using our online encounter report form.  

For corrections to recovery data, please contact Jo Anna Leachman at jleachman@usgs.gov or 301-497-5940.

U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center URL http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bbl/homepage/contact1.htm Contact: USGS/BBL Web Team Last modification: 10/24/2003 11:43:29 AM