SETI League executive director Dr. H. Paul Shuch

Introducing:

The SETI League's Executive Director

Dr. SETI ®, as H. Paul Shuch is known to his intimates, is something of a cross between Carl Sagan and Tom Lehrer (he sings like Sagan and lectures like Lehrer).* The aerospace engineer credited with the design of the world's first commercial home satellite TV receiver now directs his microwave interests toward the search for life in space. Dr. Shuch received his Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining The SETI League as its Executive Director, he served as an engineering professor on various campuses for a total of 24 years. Within the New Warrior movement, Paul's teaching background earned him the name "Patient Owl."

Paul is the author of more than 300 publications. His honors include the National Space Club's Dr. Robert H. Goddard Scholarship, the American Radio Relay League Technical Achievement Award, a Hertz Foundation Fellowship in the Applied Physical Sciences, the Hertz Doctoral Thesis Prize, the Central States VHF Society's John T. Chambers Memorial Award, and the Dayton Hamvention Technical Excellence Award. He has won for The SETI League two AAS Small Research Grants, and two CPaCCIT Technology Achievement Awards. He is a Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society, a Fellow of the Radio Club of America, serves as a fellowship interviewer for the Hertz Foundation, a manuscript reviewer for several peer reviewed journals, a member of the International Academy of Astronautics' SETI Committee, has been an advisor to the National Science Foundation, and is a military program evaluator for the American Council on Education.

Born in 1946 (among the first of the Baby Boomers), Paul lives on a radio-quiet hilltop just north of Williamsport PA with three radio telescopes, an Ovation Legend Classic guitar, his biologist wife, Muriel Hykes, and five of their seven recombinant DNA experiments. He air commutes the 200 miles to The SETI League's New Jersey office a couple of times a month in his much-modified 1970 Beechcraft A24-R Sierra. Recognizing that the most dangerous part of flying is the drive to the airport, Paul tempts fate by riding there on his trophy-winning 1989 Honda PC-800 Pacific Coast, one of three motorcycles in his garage. On clear days he can also be seen driving his award-winning 1951 MG-TD.

A Vietnam-era Air Force veteran and active instrument flight instructor, Paul serves as an FAA Aviation Safety Advisor, has been an Airport Commissioner, was once voted Flight Instructor of the Year by his FAA district office, and is part owner of the Frazier Lake Airpark, Hollister CA. He designed the patented BiDCAS aircraft anti-collision radar, which won the Experimental Aircraft Association's Safety Achievement Award, and has a patent pending for the Array2k radio telescope design.

An Extra-class radio amateur first licensed in 1961, N6TX has been operational in all 20 ham bands between 1.8 MHz and 24 GHz. Paul has chaired the VHF/UHF Advisory Committee of the American Radio Relay League, and served as Technical Director and Board Chairman of Project OSCAR, Inc., predecessor to AMSAT. He has served as a Director of the Central States VHF Society, as Membership Officer and Executive Committee member for Central PA Mensa, and is currently a Director of the Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers. Paul has been the Banquet Speaker or Guest of Honor at several ARRL Division Conventions, two AMSAT Annual Meetings, various regional VHF Conferences, numerous meetings of professional societies, quite a few Science Fiction conventions, and the Dayton Hamvention.

Dr. Shuch is listed in a whole bunch of Who's Who publications. His formal resume appears here.

You are invited to visit Paul's personal website, or Dr. SETI's gig website.

* Disclaimer: Tom Lehrer, the Minstrel of Mathematics, plays piano and teaches musical parody at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has recorded numerous record albums, and written songs for the Children's Television Workshop. The late Carl Sagan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and respected science popularizer, was David Duncan Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University. References herein to these two distinguished scholars are entirely unauthorized.

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