Jack Cox

Jack C. Cox
Commissioner
Senior Partner/Principal and Coastal Engineer for Edgewater Resources

Mr. Cox is Senior Partner/Principal and Coastal Engineer for Edgewater Resources, where he directs the planning and design of large and complex waterfront and harborworks projects worldwide.  He possesses internationally recognized credentials in research, engineering, and design of projects involving nearshore hydrodynamics, arctic and ice processes, harbor tranquility, breakwaters, fixed and floating marine structures, dredge material disposal, shore protection, port planning, marina design, and living shorelines.  He is triple board certified in Coastal, Port and Navigation Engineering by the Academy of Coastal, Ocean, Port and Navigation Engineers.  He is an award winning lecturer in the topic of coastal engineering, having received the status of distinguished lecturer at the University of Wisconsin, and guest lecturer at Purdue University and the US Naval Academy.  His 50 years of experience in the marine engineering field spans a full range, from ecologically sensitive planning through final design and construction.

Mr. Cox’s career highlights include the following:

• • • President-Elect to Board of Trustees of the Academy of Coastal, Ocean, Port and Navigation Engineers (ACOPNE). Past Trustee for Navigation and Coastal Engineering
    • Inaugural Diplomate in the fields of coastal, port and navigation engineering, ACOPNE/ASCE
    • Appointment as Adjunct Professor of Practice in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin
    • Appointment Adjunct Assistant Director for the Docks and Marinas Program, Department of Engineering Professional Development, University of Wisconsin
    • Appointment as US Representative and Deputy Chairman for the PIANC Recreational Boating Commission – 18 years
    • Appointment to Tsunami Technical Advisory Board, University of Washington
    • Special presidential license recipient to practice marine engineering in country of Cyprus
    • Patent holder for “Quay Wall with Absorption Blocks and Interconnecting Flow Paths” Patent No.: US 9,896,814 B2, February 20, 2018
    • Past chairman for the ASCE Coastal Practice and Cold Regions Engineering Technical Committees
    • Principal author and lecturer for the ASCE Manual 50 for Planning and Design of Small Craft Harbors and the PIANC Marina Design Guidelines Manual and the International Marina Designer Training Program
    • Principal Designer for the first hurricane scale Living Shoreline Protection Scheme at the Ft Pierce FL marina, which received the 2016 COPRI Project Excellence Award.
    • Pioneered the use of tandem/submerged breakwaters and floating wave attenuators to extend functionality of wave protection into otherwise unacceptable ranges
    • Author of FEMA wave overtopping and propagation theory and methodology
    • Professional Engineer in 14 States and the Island of Cyprus

Mr. Cox has authored more than fifty coastal and marina related technical publications and is an inaugural Diplomate in the Academy of Coastal, Ocean, Port and Navigation Engineers with specialties in coastal, port and navigation engineering.  He holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Engineering Science from Purdue University with post-graduate studies from the University of Chicago in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, and PhD studies in Coastal Engineering from the University of Delaware.  He is a registered professional engineer in fourteen coastal states in the US and in the country of Cyprus.