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Hi, I'm Drew. Welcome to my boneless, GMO-free, fair trade 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, my mind's eye exists only in a figurative sense. 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., Oak, Y. J., Dang, R., Yang, L. H., Beaudry, E., Colombi, N. K., Zhai, S., Kim, H., Choi, J., Park, J., Kim, S., Li, K., & Liao, H. (2025). Wintertime Trends of Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5) in South Korea, 2012–2022: Response of Nitrate and Organic Components to Decreasing NOx Emissions. Geophysical Research Letters, 52(19), e2025GL116091. Link to paper (open access). Link to PDF. Read a general audience explainer.

Korea nitrate key data figure

Figure: DJF PM2.5 and trends in South Korea. Panels (a) and (b) show DJF mean PM2.5 at AirKorea surface stations in (a) 2012 and (b) 2022. PM2.5 monitoring at these stations started in 2015, and data for 2012 is from a synthetic PM2.5 network produced using a random forest (RF) algorithm applied to the station data including PM10 (Pendergrass et al., 2025). Panel (c) shows the DJF emission-driven trend in PM2.5 after removing meteorological influence with a multi-linear regression (MLR) fit. Panel (d) shows observed DJF PM2.5 averaged over 25 sites in the city of Seoul, disaggregated into daytime (8-18 LT) and nighttime (22-5 LT) for weekdays and weekends. Panel (e) shows the emission-driven PM2.5 timeseries (residual from the meteorological MLR model) for the Seoul 0.25°×0.3125° grid cell (centered at 37.5°N,127.0°E) and averaging data from 37 sites.


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!

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.

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.

Some true statements

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

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