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Hi, I'm Drew. Welcome to my gluten-free, fair trade, organic 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 never commanded an army composed of more than 100,000 soldiers. 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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In this article, I worked with historian Troy Vettese and architect Filip Mesko to discuss how eco-socialist planning can create a just and sustainable society. We argue that the problem of land scarcity, long a topic of both classical political economy and architecture, is an opportunity to erode the separation of city and country. We consider the intellectual history of the town-country divide and how the category of wilderness and the practice of rewilding can break this binary. The illustration is by Lukas Eigler-Harding and Ariel Noltimier-Strauss and is entitled Half-Earth Diptych (2021).
Vettese, T.G.W, Pendergrass, D. C., and Mesko, F. (2022). "Town, Country, and Wilderness: Designing the Half-Earth." Architectural Design. 92(1), 112–119. doi:10.1002/ad.2780 | Read it here.
Read more of my writing here.
19 February 2021 | Listen here
In this radio interview, my co-author Troy Vettese and I spoke with Blueprint's Jonathan Green about how land use change might help us make sense of recent global fire crises from California to Siberia, Brazil to Australia.
Additional interviews are available on my interviews page.
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