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Dale A. Cox is the Project Manager of the USGS Multi-Hazards Demonstration Project. He joined the US Geological Survey in 1994, where he surveyed and reported on the hydrologic conditions of the High Plains Aquifer. While in Nebraska, he helped to create Groundwater Guardian, an international collaborative partnership between the USGS and the Groundwater Foundation. Cox later served as Chief of Communications at the USGS California Water Science Center, where he coordinated the Lake Tahoe Presidential Forum and the bathymetric mapping of Lake Tahoe. Cox also helped to coordinate the National Oceans Conference, another presidential forum to raise awareness and develop global partnerships to tackle ocean issues. Later, Cox was served as the USGS Western Publishing Manager.

In 2002, Dale A. Cox teamed with Dr. Lucy Jones and Mike Shulters to create Urban Earth, an effort to combine the knowledge of geology, hydrology, geography, and biology to investigate the “effect of the city on the Earth and the Earth on the city.” That effort led to the creation of the USGS Multi-Hazards Demonstration Project,   With Jones, Cox coordinated the 350 scientists and experts that contributed to the ShakeOut Earthquake Scenario; the USGS 2007 Firestorm Response that included ash chemical analysis, endangered species assessment and recovery, and a real-time debris flow warning system completed in time for the first rains; he is responsible for interdisciplinary working groups, community partnerships, and interorganizational collaborations including those working to create the Great Southern California ShakeOut, the largest emergency response exercise in California history; and is presently gearing up for a winter storm scenario.

Cox is a graduate of the University of Nebraska, a descendant of the New Harmony Community, and is married to Kristin Cox, a middle school math and science teacher in El Dorado Hills, CA. He is the father of five daughters, Kathryn, Elizabeth, Suzanne, Madeline, and Amelia.