Adam WillcoxMember-At-Large:
Adam Willcox
Department of Wildlife Ecology & Conservation
University of Florida
Adam Willcox graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Virginia majoring in Environmental Sciences and minoring in English Language and Literature. He then served as an Agroforestry Extension Agent with the United States Peace Corps in Southwest Cameroon, Central Africa. Adam remained in Cameroon conducting participatory rural appraisals and hunting research in communities around the Banyang-Mbo Wildlife Sanctuary for the Wildlife Conservation Society. Adam received his Master of Science with distinction in Conservation Biology from the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology at the University of Kent, U.K. He then worked as the Community Conservation Advisor and Project Leader for the Frankfurt Zoological Society in Tanzania during the initial two years of the European Commission-funded Mahale Ecosystem Management Project. Adam graduated from the University of Florida in August 2010 with a PhD in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation and minoring in Agricultural Education and Communication. He currently serves as a Post-doctoral Research Associate at the University of Florida working on several research projects including a venture with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to develop a private lands conservation monitoring survey. Adam is an applied social scientist with keen interests in integrating wildlife, fish, and natural resource management into rural private land uses, public lands outreach, and extension.
Adam has been an active member of The Wildlife Society in the student, state, regional (via the Southeastern Fish and Wildlife Association), and national chapters. He served as the graduate advisor to the UF Student Chapter of The Wildlife Society, mentoring undergraduates by offering career and graduate school advice and assisting them to organize the Annual Wild Game Dinner and trips to southeastern section conclave. He has presented posters and papers at the state, regional, and national annual conferences, receiving the Best Student Presentation Award at the 2010 state conference in Tallahassee. Adam also served as the Student Activities Subcommittee Chair for the 15th Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society in Miami, with overall responsibility for the student-professional mixer and quiz bowl. Adam successfully introduced an innovative format for the student-professional mixer that was adopted by subsequent Student Activities Subcommittee Chairs, making the mixer one of the marquee events of the annual conferences. If elected Member at Large, he will guarantee the voices and opinions of Florida Chapter members are heard and given serious consideration by the chapter, via listening sessions and brief satisfaction surveys. Adam lives in Gainesville with his wife Emma and they spend their free time fishing the flats and exploring the wilds of Florida with their three dogs on foot and by kayak.