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Hi, I'm Drew. Welcome to my artisanally-crafted, gluten-free, organic 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, to my knowledge, there is no portrait of me that ages in my place. 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:

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Upcoming events

Panel: Politics of Nature in the Anthropocene: On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Models (Berlin, Ger.)

Date: 11 February 2026 at 6:30pm CET

Location: Museum of Natural History, Invalidenstraße 43, 10115 Berlin

As part of the Brecht-Tage festival in Berlin, which this year is focused on Brecht's "Green Revolution", I'll be presenting on the politics of knowledge in Earth system modeling and its relationship with Bertolt Brecht's plays and writings on science and nature. Other presenters include Hans Christian von Herrmann, Sebastian Kirsch, Tom Turnball, and Patrick Primaves. This is the second of three events taking place at the museum this evening, running from 5:00pm through 8:00pm CET. Entry is free! More information on the Brecht-Haus website.

Panel: »Nichtstun fürs Klima!«: Brecht's Daoism as a strategy of interventionist non-action (Berlin, Ger.)

Date: 12 February 2026 at 8:00pm CET

Location: Literature Forum at the Brecht House, Chausseestraße 125, 10115 Berlin, Germany

As part of the Brecht-Tage festival in Berlin, my co-author Troy Vettese and I will be presenting some of our work on the surprising resonances between Bertolt Brecht and Laozi: both figures praise forms of non-action and uselessness. In conversation with Heinrich Detering, we will comment on the implications for climate action. This is the fourth of four events taking place at the Brecht-Haus this evening, running from 4:30pm through 9:30pm CET.

Lecture: NC State Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Seminar Series (Raleigh, NC)

Date: 20 February 2026 at 3:30pm ET

Location: NC State campus (exact location tbd)

I will be presenting some of my current work on emissions quantification as part of the NC State Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Seminar Series.

Additional events, future and past, are available on my events page.

Warning!

Warning: this website is proudly WOKE.

Featured science!

Pendergrass, D. C., Jacob, D. J., Nesser, H., Varon, D. J., Sulprizio, M., Miyazaki, K., & Bowman, K. W. (2023). CHEEREIO 1.0: A versatile and user-friendly ensemble-based chemical data assimilation and emissions inversion platform for the GEOS-Chem chemical transport model. Geoscientific Model Development, 16(16), 4793–4810. Link to paper (open access). Link to PDF. Read a general audience explainer.

CHEEREIO workflow diagram

Figure: Schematic of CHEEREIO runtime routines and job control procedures. CHEEREIO is run as an array of m separate jobs on a computational cluster, one for each ensemble member. These m jobs, operating in parallel, alternate between running GEOS-Chem and running the LETKF algorithm for a subset of grid cells, as shown by the light yellow boxes; the m jobs are coordinated by a single job controller shared by the entire ensemble (shown in light red), ensuring that the ensemble remains synchronized. Boxes in blue show data input into CHEEREIO processes.


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.

A random interview

A World to Win with Grace Blakeley (podcast)

15 June 2022 | Listen here

My co-author Troy Vettese and I spoke with Grace Blakeley on the World to Win podcast, from Tribune Magazine, about our book Half-Earth Socialism.

Additional interviews are available on my interviews page.

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Some true statements

I am not a closed, non-orientable, boundary-free manifold ... I am a mammal ... I appreciate knowledge of the outcome of a given situation ... I proudly possess object permanence ... I hold no world records ... I keep the old gods ... I have nothing to do with explosions ... I have never commanded an army composed of more than 100,000 soldiers ... I have never advocated on behalf of, or against, the Free Silver movement ... I have never traveled to an exoplanet ... I am not to my knowledge a victim of a mummy's curse ... my mind's eye exists only in a figurative sense ... you cannot prove I have sympathies for the former state of Burgundy ... I accept the axiom of choice ... I am not a substitute for a medical doctor ... I have absolutely no intention of running for Senate in the great state of Minnesota ... I have no trouble distinguishing my right from my left ... I am reluctant to resort to black magic ...

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