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Hi, I'm Drew. Welcome to my fair trade, artisanally-crafted, 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 have no trouble distinguishing my right from my left. 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

Talk: Socialismo di Metà-Terra book tour (Florence, Italy)

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.

Talk: Socialismo di Metà-Terra book tour (Bologna, Italy)

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.

Talk: Socialismo di Metà-Terra book tour (Turin, Italy)

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.

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 featured interdisciplinary project!

A short primer on the politics of geoengineering

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.

The cover of the book Power Shift, in which my essay appears.

Read more of my writing here.

A random media appearance

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 and media are available on my interviews page.

All the cool kids are using CHEEREIO!

CHEEREIO is a tool that uses observations of pollutants in the atmosphere, measured from satellites or surface stations, to correct supercomputer models that simulate the Earth. Powerful use cases for CHEEREIO include tracking pollution back to its source, even if there are no local observations on the ground, and monitoring greenhouse gas emissions in near-real-time. Read more on my projects page or the offical CHEEREIO site.

Logo for CHEEEREIO software, with name in black going through a globe schematic in yellow.
Warning!

Warning: this website is proudly WOKE.

You should google Graham Starr