Kaneohe Neighborhood Board Blog

WCC COMMUNITY FORUM IN CHEMISTRY
Nuclear Threat Preparedness
2:00-4:00 p.m., Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Hale Kuhina 115, Windward Community College

Speaker is:Vern T. Miyagi,
Administrator,
HI-Emergency Management Agency

Mr. Miyagi will discuss what the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency is
doing to prepare our state from nuclear threat and what steps it is taking to
educate the public and our community. This is free and open to the public.

Vern T. Miyagi is the Administrator for the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency (HIEMA).
Prior to his appointment, Vern served as the Executive Officer at HI-EMA. Vern
is a retired U. S. Army Major General with over 37 years of service and has experience
in domestic and international humanitarian assistance and disaster response (HADR)
operations and exercises.

During the 1992 Hurricane Iniki operation, Vern served as the
operations officer for the deployed Hawaii National Guard joint task force on the island
of Kauai. At PACOM, he participated in a variety of disaster relief operations and
exercises, including the 2004 Asian Tsunami, UN Peacekeeping/HADR exercises in
Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines and Mongolia, and trilateral disaster
exercises involving the U. S., Korea, and Japan. Vern has served as the State
Coordinating Officer (SCO) for three Presidentially Declared disasters (Tropical Storm
Iselle, the Puna Lava Emergency, and the Maui Iao Valley Flood).

Vern has a BA degree
in accounting and an MBA degree from the University of Hawaii.
This forum is co-sponsored by Windward Community College
and the American Chemical Society-Hawai’i Section