Kenneth G. Miller (born 1956) is an American geologist who is currently a distinguished professor at
Rutgers University.
Early life and education
Born in 1956, Miller grew up in
Medford, New Jersey. In 1978, he received an A.B. from Rutgers College, and in 1982, received a PhD from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology/
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Oceanography.
Career
He went on to work as an Associate Research Scientist at
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory from 1983 to 1988 and has taught at Rutgers University since 1987. Miller is a veteran of 8 scientific cruises. He has integrated offshore seismic and drilling activities with onshore drilling: since 1993, he has been Chief Scientist of the New Jersey Coastal Plain Drilling Project which continuously cored thirteen sites. He has written more than 100 scientific papers, his most significant publications include widely cited synthesis of
Cenozoic
The Cenozoic ( ; ) is Earth's current geological era, representing the last 66million years of Earth's history. It is characterised by the dominance of mammals, birds and flowering plants, a cooling and drying climate, and the current configura ...
oxygen isotopes (Miller et al., 1987) and a synthesis of global sea-level change (Miller et al., 1998, 2005). He was awarded the
Rosenstiel Award from the
University of Miami in 2003, a two-time JOI/USSAC Distinguished Lecturer (1995, 2006), and a fellow of the American Geophysical Union.
He been featured in articles and given talks about sea level change and the effects of global warming. He also teaches a course on sea level change.
Miller splits his time between homes in
New Jersey in
Pennington and in the
Waretown section of
Ocean Township above
Barnegat Bay, where he describes how he "watches the inexorable rise in sea level".
Kenneth G. Miller
, Rutgers University Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Accessed November 27, 2013. "A resident of Pennington, NJ, Ken grew up in Medford, NJ in the heart of the pine barrens and still owns a house in Waretown, NJ, the home of the sounds of the NJ pines, where he watches the inexorable rise in sea level from his deck 16 ft above Barnegat Bay."
References
External links
Rutgers Geology
The Phanerozoic Record of Global Sea-Level Change Ken Miller and associatesKen Miller and BrowningKen Miller and SugarmanKen Miller and Katz
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1956 births
Living people
American geologists
Rutgers University faculty
People from Medford, New Jersey
People from Ocean Township, Ocean County, New Jersey
People from Pennington, New Jersey
Fellows of the American Geophysical Union