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Hi, I'm Drew. Welcome to my low-sodium, gluten-free, artisanally-crafted website! I am an incoming assistant professor of environmental studies at Oberlin College; also, I am not a substitute for a medical doctor. 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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Methane animation frame
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

NovaraFM with Aaron Bastani (podcast)

6 May 2022 | Listen here

My co-author Troy Vettese and I talk about our book Half-Earth Socialism with Novara's Aaron Bastani.

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.

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