Activities
Kevin is the Tsunami Program lead for the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) Earthquake & Tsunami Program. The program has provided leadership in pioneering tsunami research to identify the tsunami inundation and maritime hazard along our coast. A multi-year project to complete statewide tsunami inundation maps was released publicly in 2009. He represents California on the National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program, serving as Co-Chair of the Mitigation and Education Subcommittee. The California Tsunami Program works with its state, federal, and local partners to implement a vision of using the identified hazard to support evacuation and land use planning, mitigation efforts, maritime ports and harbors research and planning, and facilitation of effective emergency response to real tsunamis’ impacting California. This work is critical in educating the public about the agency’s ultimate mission of protecting lives and property in California.
Skills
Kevin Miller has 20 years of experience working in emergency management for the State of California. He has a background in geospatial applications responding to and preparing for natural and man-made disasters affecting our state. His emergency management experience spans all major events affecting California during this time, including the 1994 Northridge Earthquake, 1995 and 1997-8 Statewide/Northern California Flooding, the 2003 and 2007 Southern California Firestorms, and most recently the March 11, 2011 Tohoku Tsunami from Japan.
