Nick is responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of NASA’s Risk Analysis and Solutions Innovators (RASI) Workgroup, whose mission is to enhance climate resilience at NASA Centers. Leading the Temperature and Precipitation Workgroup, providing projections for each NASA Centers using downscaled climate model data (NEX GDDP), as well as collaborating with NASA scientists at other NASA Centers to provide additional climate projections. Organized and presented at the RASI workshop held at Langley Research Center. Working on the ROSES funded project “Hampton Roads Coastal Resilience Project”, providing climate risk data for the Hampton Roads region and engaging with stakeholders to increase resilience. Helped create and write the “Resilient Future for JPL” report. Assisting the 'National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR) Resilience Assessments for 2 NASA Centers a year by providing climate projections based on specific vulnerabilities and risks and interviewing NASA personnel on present and future climate impacts. Helped write and edit NASA’s Climate Adaptation Plan. Released RASI climate risk projections publicly for all NASA Centers and their surrounding regions. Co-author on the Urban Climate Change Research Network Third Assessment Report on Climate Change and Cities, and provided temperature and precipitation projections for over 200 cities globally. Working on advancing research on analyzing compound climate events at NASA Centers and their surrounding regions.
Nick completed his M.A. in Climate and Society at Columbia University. Before working in climate research, Nick worked as an actor, having received his BFA in Musical Theatre from the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music (CCM). He performed in the national tour of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, as well as various other regional theatres around the US.