Dr. Nicholas Good, PhD

Areas of Expertise

• Exposure reconstruction and probabilistic risk modeling (asbestos, benzene)
• Scientific instrument development, evaluation, and deployment
• Indoor air quality and building performance analysis
• Aerosol optical and absorption properties characterization
• Black carbon and brown carbon measurement and analysis
• Ice nucleation and cloud microphysics
• Biomass burning and combustion emissions characterization
• Bioaerosol detection and classification (fluorescence, holographic sensors)
• Expert witness materials and analytical support for legal teams
• Data analysis, modeling, and R programming

Research Focus Areas

• Indoor Air Quality & Building Performance: Leading research at the intersection of building energy efficiency and indoor air quality, developing scalable approaches for commercial building air quality assessments. Recent work focuses on the interplay between policy and indoor air quality mitigation strategies.
• Air Pollution Exposure & Health Outcomes: Research on acute health effects of air pollution in occupational, residential, and controlled settings. Developing modeling approaches to relate multi-decadal air pollution exposure potential and cognitive health outcomes in longitudinal cohorts.
• Measurement & Data Analysis Techniques: Development of measurement techniques, analysis algorithms, and data interfaces for air pollutants. Expertise in personal ventilation rate modeling and black carbon exposure assessment.

Recent Research Funding

• HHS-CDC (2024-2026): Indoor Air Quality Assessment for Colorado Businesses - Co-Investigator, $827,666
• DOE (2024): Low-Cost Fluorescence Spectrometer for Pollen and Aerosols - Co-Investigator, $255,417
• DOE (2023-2025): Low-Cost Holographic Sensor for Urban Aerosol - Co-Investigator, $1.65M
• NASA (2023-2024): Airborne Multiangle Aerosol Size Spectrometer - Co-Investigator, $165,519
• DOD (2023): Portable Holographic Imager for Aerosols - Co-Investigator, $182,995
• HHS-CDC (2021-2024): COVID-19 Indoor Air Quality/Ventilation Assessment - Co-Principal Investigator, $2.1M
• CSU OVPR (2020): Quantitative Models to Reduce Aerosol Exposures in Performing Arts - Principal Investigator, $32,137

Education

• PhD – University of Manchester (2005–2009)
  Atmospheric Science: Measuring hygroscopic properties and cloud activation of atmospheric aerosols.
• BSc – University of Manchester (2002–2005)
  Physics

Professional Experience

• RedSpire LLC: Co-Founder (2025-present)
• CloudSci LLC: Co-Founder (2023)
• Good Science LLC: Owner (2019-present) - Environmental consulting for occupational health, exposure modeling, asbestos/benzene cases
• Colorado State University: Research Scientist III (2020-present), Research Scientist I (2017-2020), Postdoctoral Fellow (2012-2017)
• Handix Scientific LLC: VP Research & Development (2020-2022), Principal Scientist (2017-2020), Senior Scientist (2015-2017)
• Droplet Measurement Technologies: Scientist/Sales Specialist (2012-2015)
• University of Hertfordshire: Project Manager (2011-2012) - Air quality and health impact assessment tools
• CNRS - Université Blaisé Pascal: Postdoctoral Researcher (2009-2010) - Cloud and ice forming potential of bioaerosols

Select Publications

From over 50 peer-reviewed publications | ORCiD: 0000-0002-6048-4938 | h-index: 28

• Gibson L, Levin EJT, Emerson E, Good N, et al. (2024) "Measurement report: An investigation of the spatiotemporal variability of aerosol in the mountainous terrain of the Upper Colorado River Basin from SAIL-Net." EGUsphere [pre-print].
• Hoskovec L, et al. (2023) "Infinite hidden Markov models for multiple multivariate time series with missing data." Biometrics.
• Tanner K, et al. (2023) "Large particle emissions from human vocalization and playing of wind instruments." Environmental Science & Technology, 57(41), 15392-15400.
• Volckens J, et al. (2022) "Aerosol emissions from wind instruments: effects of performer age, sex, sound pressure level, and bell covers." Scientific Reports, 12:11303.
• Good N, et al. (2021) "Respiratory aerosol emissions from vocalization: age and sex differences are explained by volume and exhaled CO2." Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 8(12), 1071-1076.
• Cole-Hunter T, et al. (2021) "Short-term differences in cardiac function following controlled exposure to cookstove air pollution: The subclinical tests on volunteers exposed to smoke (STOVES) study." Environment International, 146: 106254.
• Benka-Coker M, et al. (2021) "Impact of the wood-burning Justa cookstove on fine particulate matter exposure: A stepped-wedge randomized trial in rural Honduras." Science of the Total Environment.
• Fedak K, Good N, et al. (2020) "Acute changes in lung function following controlled exposure to cookstove air pollution in the STOVES study." Inhalation Toxicology, 32(3), 115-123.
• Walker E, Fedak K, Good N, et al. (2020) "Acute differences in pulse wave velocity, augmentation index, and central pulse pressure following controlled exposures to cookstove air pollution in the STOVES study." Environmental Research, 180: 108831.
• Bilsback K, et al. (2019) "A laboratory assessment of 120 air pollutant emissions from biomass and fossil fuel cookstoves." Environmental Science & Technology, 53(12): 7114-7125.
• Good N, et al. (2019) "Development and validation of models to predict personal ventilation rate for air pollution research." Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology.
• Good N, et al. (2017) "An accurate filter loading correction is essential for assessing personal exposure to black carbon using an Aethalometer." Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology.
• Good N, et al. (2016) "The Fort Collins Commuter Study: Impact of route type and transport mode on personal exposure to multiple air pollutants." Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology, 26(4), 397-404.
• Good N, et al. (2010) "Consistency between parameterisations of aerosol hygroscopicity and CCN activity during the RHaMBLe discovery cruise." Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics, 10(24), 12189-12207.
• Good N, et al. (2010) "Instrumentational operation and analytical methodology for the reconciliation of aerosol water uptake under sub-and supersaturated conditions."Atmospheric Measurement Techniques.

Awards & Service

• University of Manchester Physics Scholarship
• UK National Environmental Research Council PhD Scholarship
• NASA Citizen Science Data Working Group member
• Reviewer for Aerosol Science and Technology
• Reviewer for Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics
• Reviewer for Atmospheric Environment
• Reviewer for Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
• Reviewer for Environmental Health Perspectives
• Reviewer for Indoor Air
• Instructor for graduate-level courses at Colorado State University: R Programming for Research (2018-2021), Aerosols & Environmental Health (2012-2019), Occupational & Environmental Toxicology (2020-present)
• Workshop instructor: The Theory and Practice of Aerosol Instruments (CSU & TSI Inc., 2015-2018)