Davey Edwards is a professional land surveyor in Texas and Oklahoma. He also has been duly qualified as a Texas licensed state land surveyor and a U.S. Federal land surveyor. He is currently a professional assistant professor in the Geospatial Systems Engineering program at Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi. He is the appointed director of the Texas Spatial Reference Center in the Conrad Blucher Institute for Surveying and Science.
Davey has his BS degree in Biomedical Science from Texas A&M University in College Station, MS degree in Geospatial Surveying Engineering from Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi, and Doctorate degree in Geosciences from the University of Texas in Dallas. His studies concentrated on land administration systems and riparian boundary morphology.
Davey teaches various professional continuing education courses on land surveying. He was an adjunct professor in geology at Weatherford College Wise County. He has served on the advisory committee for the Geospatial System Engineering program at Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi.
Davey is a past president of the Texas Society of Professional Surveyors. He is the 2006 recipient of the TSPS Young Surveyor of the Year award and the 2007 recipient of the TSPS Chapter President of the Year award. He is currently serving as a survey emeritus member of the Texas Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors and a member of the survey advisory committee. He has served as Governor Rick Perry’s appointee as public member of the Texas Board of Architectural Examiners and as Governor Greg Abbott’s appointee as a licensed state land surveyor member of the Texas Board of Professional Land Surveying. He has served as chairman of the City of Decatur’s planning and zoning commission.
Davey continues to be the vice president of his father’s 47-year old land surveying company, Edwards Surveying, LLC, in Decatur, Texas, where their primary work is in large boundary surveying and boundary issue resolution. His work has been on some of the most complex original land grant surveys for the Texas General Land Office. He has surveyed, on-the-ground, in every region of Texas and Oklahoma. He has volunteered with U.S. Congressman Mac Thornberry in Washington D.C. and Governor Greg Abbott and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to defend the property rights of land owners along the Red River against claims by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
