Join Shah, a National Geographic Explorer as he shares some of his most recent projects. These include using drones and other technology to monitor illegal fishing and expeditions into the Okavango Delta to monitor water quality and biodiversity.
Shah created FishNET, a platform approach harnessing technology to detect and track illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing worldwide. "Most engineers in this field look for better ways to extract fish from oceans. I’m focused on better ways to keep them there."
His day job is a satellite propulsion systems engineer at Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems and the Southern California region representative of Engineers Without Borders. Through longstanding leadership in Engineers Without Borders, he has built homes in Mexico, solar energy projects in Mali, water distribution systems in Malawi, and a rainwater catch system in Tanzania that lets students spend time in school instead of fetching water.
Grade Level: Grade 4 and up
Duration: Approx. 45 minutes
