Ms. Adcock earned a B.S. degree in Environmental Science from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and a M.S. degree in Wildlife Ecology from Texas State University. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate studying Aquatic Resources and Integrative Biology at Texas State. Ms. Adcock has 18 years of academic and professional experience in wildlife ecology, wetland ecology, road ecology, environmental permitting, and terrestrial and aquatic community ecology throughout Texas and the southeast coastal plain, including Louisiana and Florida. She is experienced in developing habitat management plans associated with large land holdings at the federal, state, and local level; design and implementation of field-based research; and threatened and endangered species ecology. Additionally, Ms. Adcock is proficient with molecular techniques, statistical analyses, and technical writing. Specific areas of expertise include listed species surveys and wildlife relocations, including the application of various survey and trapping techniques for herpetofauna, small mammals, fish, and avian species, strategic planning in association with listed species permitting, the implementation of habitat management and restoration techniques, conservation planning, biological resource inventories, vegetation monitoring, ecological site assessments, wetland delineation and permitting, hydrologic indicator determination, and mitigation monitoring. She is currently a candidate for a doctoral degree at Texas State University in the field of biology.