Daniel Cox’s research focuses on community resilience to coastal hazards, including tsunami and hurricane surge and waves inundation in the built and natural environments. He conducts research on tsunami and wave impacts on near-coast structures, tsunami evacuation and life safety, sediment transport and erosion, and nature-based solutions for coastal hazards mitigation.
Cox serves as the principal investigator of the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure Experimental Facility at the O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory at Oregon State University. He also serves as the chair of the American Society of Civil Engineering standards for Flood Loads and for Flood Resistant Design of structures.