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Hi, I'm Drew. Welcome to my organic, GMO-free, boneless website! I am an incoming assistant professor of environmental studies at Oberlin College; also, I have never commanded an army composed of more than 100,000 soldiers. Navigate this site as follows:

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Upcoming events

Talk: CHEEREIO at the 12th International GEOS-Chem Meeting (St. Louis, MO)

Date: 8 June 2026 at 4:00pm CT

Location: Washington University in St. Louis

I will be at the GEOS-Chem meeting, giving a workshop on the technical aspects of using CHEEREIO.

Talk: Ammonia at the 12th International GEOS-Chem Meeting (St. Louis, MO)

Date: 9 June 2026 at 2:10pm CT

Location: Washington University in St. Louis

I will be at the GEOS-Chem meeting, giving a talk on my ongoing work quantifying global ammonia emissions from 2013 through 2024, along with their drivers and seasonality.

Presentation: 13th Biennial US Society for Ecological Economics Conference (Oberlin, OH)

Date: 19 June 2026 at TBD

Location: Oberlin College

I will be presenting a paper entitled "Beyond prices: multi-criteria signals for a social-ecological transformation" at the USSEE conference on behalf of myself and my co-authors Joël Foramitti, Walther Zeug, and Jakob Heyer.

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


FEATURED SCIENCE
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July 2020 daily assimilated methane at surface level (Pendergrass et al., 2025).


You can learn more about my research on the projects page, or you can read through all of my scientific papers and presentations on their respective pages.

A featured interdisciplinary project!

Half-Earth Socialism

Half-Earth Socialism is a book I co-authored with environmental historian Troy Vettese on how we can get out of our current ecological mess. Published in April 2022 by Verso Books, you can order it from the publisher here. The book has been translated into Italian, Thai, Korean, Spanish, and Swedish; all translations can be ordered from my books page.

Pendergrass, D.C. and Vettese, T.G.W (2022). Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics. Verso Books. | Read it here.

Half-earth socialism book cover.

Read more about my books here.

A random media appearance

Three Problems with Utopia: Hayek, Kornai, Gorgias (video)

30 April 2024 | Watch here

My co-author Troy Vettese and I delivered a plenary entitled "Three Problems with Utopia: Hayek, Kornai, Gorgias" at the conference on Utopia and the Return of History at the University of Manchester, 30 April 2024.

Additional interviews and media are available on my interviews page.

Play Alchemy!

"So fun you won't even need friends!"


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Some true statements

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

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