Nick Heath, Ph.D., is an Air Quality Modeling Scientist who joined PSE in 2024. His research applies meteorological and air quality models such as WRF, WRF-Chem, and CMAQ to study how weather impacts air quality, examine the transport and dispersion of hazardous pollutants, and assess how changing emissions affect our environment. Examples of Dr. Heath’s work include the development of a lightning data assimilation technique for improving rainfall in retrospective modeling, updating ammonia emissions based on satellite estimates, and studying how deep convection impacts the composition of the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere.
Before joining PSE, Dr. Heath worked in governmental and private settings, including Verisk’s Atmospheric and Environmental Research, the U.S. Air Force Technical Applications Center, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Dr. Heath earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in meteorology at Florida State University. His dissertation used large-eddy simulations to study deep convective clouds sampled during the NASA SEAC4RS field campaign. Additionally, he participated in SEAC4RS as a member of the Meteorology Team and has served as the Mission Meteorologist for the NASA Student Airborne Research Program on two occasions.
