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Hi, I'm Drew. My gluten-free, artisanally-crafted, organic website is lovingly built from whatever I decide to post online. For that reason, it has a lot of stuff on it. Navigate as follows:

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If you are interested in HUMAN CONTACT: I can be reached at drew [at] drewpendergrass [dot] com, or at the academic address in my CV. For upcoming events, check out my events page. If you want to follow my work, you can subscribe to my newsletter below (expect emails every six months or so at most):


Upcoming events

Lecture: Reducitarian Summit (Atlanta)

Date: 24 October, 2025 at 5pm ET

Location: Westin Buckhead Atlanta

I will be presenting a lightning talk on methane emissions from agriculture at the 2025 Reducitarian Summit in Atlanta, GA. More info here.

Posters: Atmospheric Chemistry Gordon Research Seminar/Conference (Maine)

Date: 2 August, 2025 at time TBD

Location: Grand Summit Hotel at Sunday River, Maine

I will be presenting posters on global methane emissions and nighttime radical chemistry in South Korea. Come say hi!

Workshop: Politics, Valorization and Technology in the High-Tech Bioeconomy (Berlin)

Date: 28 July, 2025 at 2pm CEST

Location: BioMaterialities Research Group at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

I will be presenting a paper entitled "Every Cook Can Plan: Economic Democracy Against Catastrophe" at the closing event for the BioMaterialities group in Berlin via Zoom. More info here.

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

The latest 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.

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.

Warning!

Warning: this website is proudly WOKE.

A Brief Q&A

Q. Why does this page keep changing?

A. This page is randomly generated by the server on each load. Most of the page's contents are not displayed on one particular load, so for the full experience reload a bunch of times.

Q. How can I contact you or keep up with your work?

A. You can reach me at drew [at] drewpendergrass [dot] com (or the academic address in my CV); I'm pretty quick with email. However, if your email is unpleasant, you should direct it to grievances@drewpendergrass.com, an inbox I definitely read.

If you want to keep up with new projects, the best way is to subscribe to my newsletter. I send short emails a few times a year with major updates on science and writing. I keep my social media limited these days, but you can follow/DM me on Bluesky. My old Twitter is still up, but I don't use it anymore.

Q. Who are you?

A. Well, to start off, I have never traveled to an exoplanet, I am not reptilian, I did not orchestrate the Camp David Accords, my mind's eye exists only in a figurative sense, and I hold no world records. Besides that, I am a doctoral student in Environmental Engineering at Harvard University, and I freelance on the side for publications including Harper's and The Guardian. I'm also at work on a sci-fi novel and have a book under contract with Verso on economic democracy. In my activism and organizing, we work to make ecological democracy a reality in my home of Massachusetts. I am also a long-time steward in the Harvard Graduate Students Union (UAW local 5117). For more information, you can check out my projects page or my CV.

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Some true statements

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

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