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Hi, I'm Drew. Welcome to my GMO-free, low-sodium, gluten-free website! I am a postdoctoral associate at the Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment and an incoming assistant professor of environmental studies and sciences at Oberlin College; also, I am a mammal. Be aware that this website is very large, and some of it is randomly generated. For the full experience, reload a bunch of times and navigate as follows:
Date: 23 March 2026 at 7pm CET (approximate)
Location: GKN factory
I will discuss the Italian translation of my book at the occupied GKN factory in Florence.
Date: 24 March 2026 at 5pm CET
Location: University of Bologna
I will discuss the Italian translation of my book at the at the interdepartmental seminar "Ecologie Algoritmi Poteri" in Bologna.
Date: 25 March 2026 at 5pm CET
Location: Campus Luigi Einaudi
I will discuss the Italian translation of my book with Dario Padovan in Turin.
Additional events, future and past, are available on my events page.
Pendergrass, D.C. Jacob, D. J., Balasus, N., Estrada, L., Varon, D. J., East, J. D., He, M., Mooring, T. A., Penn, E., Nesser, H., & Worden, J. R. (2025). Trends and seasonality of 2019–2023 global methane emissions inferred from a localized ensemble transform Kalman filter (CHEEREIO v1.3.1) applied to TROPOMI satellite observations. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 25(21), 14353–14369. Link to paper (open access). Link to PDF. Read a general audience explainer.
Figure: Annual posterior methane emission trends for 2019-2023 disaggregated by region and sector. Emissions are inferred using a localized ensemble transform Kalman filter applied to TROPOMI satellite observations. Panels (a) and (b) show posterior emission changes relative to 2019, disaggregated by region and sector respectively. Inset percentages show changes relative to 2019 values for selected regions/sectors. Error bars show range of the inversion ensemble for the global emission trend. Panel (c) shows 2019-2023 trends in posterior emissions by region obtained from linear regression.
You can learn more about my research on the projects page, or you can read through all of our scientific papers and presentations on their respective pages.
In 2025, I wrote a short essay on the politics of geoengineering for an edited volume called Power Shift from WVU Press. I am in good company (Joshua Clover, Leah Aronowsky, Dominic Boyer, Mijin Cha, Cameron Hu, and Ashley Dawson are among the contributors). You can buy the whole book here.
Pendergrass, D. C. (2025). Geoengineering. In I. Szeman and J. Wenzel (Eds.), Power Shift: Keywords for a New Politics of Energy. West Virginia University Press. | Read it here.
Read more of my writing here.
12 May 2022 | Listen here
My co-author Troy Vettese and I talk about our book Half-Earth Socialism, and our attitude towards technology, with Paris Marx.
Additional interviews are available on my interviews page.
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