Kenneth G. Miller is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Rutgers University. He received an A.B. from Rutgers College (1978) and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Oceanography (1982). A veteran of 8 scientific cruises, he studied sea-level change using southern New Jersey and the offshore as a natural laboratory. A resident of Pennington, NJ, Ken grew up in Medford, NJ in the heart of the pine barrens and just sold his house in Waretown, NJ, the home of the sounds of the NJ pines, where he used to watch the inexorable rise in sea level from his deck 15 ft above Barnegat Bay.