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Hi, I'm Drew. Welcome to my fair trade, artisanally-crafted, organic website! I am an incoming assistant professor of environmental studies at Oberlin College; also, I am reluctant to resort to black magic. 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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June 2021 daily fine particulate matter in Japan (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: A Planetary Crisis Planning Game

The Half-Earth Socialism planning game allows anyone to try their hand as a global planner of a post-capitalist science fiction society. The player aims to overcome the environmental crisis, global poverty and inequality, and pursue other goals, all while keeping global parliament happy (else the player will find themselves out of a job, or worse). Consider it a sandbox where you can play with a wide range of technologies and policies spanning different fields and ideologies. The game simulates the impact of your decisions by calculating emissions and using a real climate model (HECTOR) to work out the climate effects, while also simulating impacts to the food system and biodiversity, among other natural systems. The video game is based on my book, Half-Earth Socialism, and was made by a team including Francis Tseng, Son La Pham, Troy Vettese, and myself.

HES demo screen showing gameplay cards.

Play more of my games here.

A random media appearance

Current Affairs Podcast with Nathan J. Robinson (podcast)

7 July 2022 | Listen here

My co-author Troy Vettese and I spoke with Nathan from the Current Affairs podcast 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.
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Warning: this website is proudly WOKE.

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