Jessica Côté is a Coastal Engineer and the owner of a small woman owned engineering consultancy, Blue Coast Engineering. Her focus is on process-based studies to determine the feasibility and environmental effects of sediment dredging and disposal, commercial aquaculture and coastal development and infrastructure.  Jessica also works with multidisciplinary teams to combine physical measurements, engineering analysis, and numerical modelling to develop restoration designs for estuaries and shorelines which balance stakeholder needs and increases resiliency  to flooding events. Jessica has worked on complex coastal issues across the United States and around the world since 1999 including four of the five major oceans. Jessica graduated from Tufts University School of Engineering in 1993 in Mechanical Engineering and Environmental Studies, and also has a Masters of Science in Ocean Engineering from Oregon State University. She is a licensed Professional Civil Engineer in the States of Washington and Alaska and published many peer reviewed papers.