Drew Pendergrass [email protected] Pierce Hall G3G drewpendergrass.com 29 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 EDUCATION Harvard University Cambridge, Mass. Ph.D. student, Engineering Sciences. June 2020 – Present Advisor: Daniel J. JacoB. Harvard University Cambridge, Mass. B.A., Physics and Mathematics; minor in English. May 2020 Summa cum laude and highest departmental honors. RESEARCH INTERESTS I work at the intersection of atmospheric chemistry, statistical modeling, and data assimilation to improve our understanding and forecasting of air quality, with a focus on East Asia. I also work on political theory of the environment, which has led to a co- authored book and peer-reviewed essays in journals of history and architecture. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Harvard University Cambridge, Mass. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences June 2020 – Present Graduate research assistant Advisor: Daniel J. Jacob • Analyze air quality patterns in East Asia using data science and inverse modeling, integrating oBservations from remote sensing and ground stations. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Princeton, N.J. Geophysical Fluid Dynamics LaBoratory (GFDL) May 2019 – August 2019 Undergraduate research assistant Advisor: Larry Horowitz • Analyze emissions and land use effects on Indian monsoon dynamics. Model impacts of regulations on future air quality in China. Harvard University Cambridge, Mass. Chan School of PuBlic Health January 2019 – May 2021 Undergraduate research assistant Advisors: Samuel Myers, Matthew Smith • Analyze the impact of droughts on nutrition outcomes and gloBal agricultural commodity trade, with an emphasis on health in low-income nations. Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, Hong Kong Earth System Science Programme June 2018 – August 2018 Undergraduate research assistant Advisor: Amos Tai • Used topological data analysis and manifold learning to understand nonlinear interactions Between tropospheric ozone, meteorology, the biosphere, and anthropogenic emissions. Harvard University Cambridge, Mass. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences December 2016 – FeBruary 2019 Undergraduate research assistant Advisors: Daniel J. Jacob, Lu Shen, Loretta Mickley Pendergrass 1 • Quantify the oBserved relationship between Beijing weather patterns and pollution accretion using extreme value theory. PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS Pendergrass, D. C., D. J. JacoB, S. Zhai, J. Kim, J-H. Koo, S. Lee, M. Bae, and S. Kim. (2021). 2 Continuous mapping of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) air Quality in East Asia at daily 6x6 km resolution By application of a random forest algorithm to 2011-2019 GOCI geostationary satellite data. Submitted to Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. Pendergrass, D. C., Shen, L., JacoB, D. J., & Mickley, L. J. (2019). Predicting the Impact of Climate Change on Severe Wintertime Particulate Pollution Events in Beijing Using Extreme Value Theory. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(3), 1824–1830. doi: 10.1029/2018GL080102. DATASETS Pendergrass, D. C., JacoB, D. J., Zhai, S., Kim, J., Koo, J.-H., Lee, S., Bae, M., & Kim, S. (2021). Continuous daily maps of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) air quality in East Asia by application of a random forest algorithm to GOCI geostationary satellite data [Data set]. Harvard Dataverse. doi: 10.7910/DVN/0L3IP7 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Pendergrass, D. C., D. J. JacoB, S. Zhai, J. Kim, J-H. Koo, M. Bae, and S. Kim. Continuous Mapping of Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5) Air Quality in East Asia by Application of a Random Forest Algorithm to GOCI Geostationary Satellite Data. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, New Orleans, La., December 2021. Submitted. Pendergrass, D. C., L.W. Horowitz, and V. Naik. Modeling impact of strong regulation of near- term climate forcers in China on mid-21st century air quality and climate using the GFDL- ESM4 coupled model. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Calif., December 2019. Talk. Pendergrass, D. C., L. Shen, D. J. JacoB, and L. J. Mickley. Predicting the impact of climate change on severe winter haze pollution events in Beijing using extreme value theory. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Washington D.C., December 2018. Talk. TEACHING EPS 200: Graduate-level Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Teaching Fellow) Fall 2021 MENTORSHIP Lewis McAllister (Harvard University, class of 2022) June 2021 – Present • Project: Extreme springtime particulate formation events over South Korean farmland. Co- mentor with Ellie Beaudry and Prof. Daniel JacoB. Marie Panday (University of Maryland, class of 2022) June 2021 – Aug. 2021 • Project: Agreement between the NOAA Hazard Mapping System product and ground-level airport smoke in the US. Co-mentor with Tina Liu, Makoto Kelp, and Dr. Loretta Mickley. NSF REU student. Pendergrass 2 Miah Caine (Harvard University, class of 2023) June 2020 – May 2021 • Project: Agreement between the NOAA Hazard Mapping System product and ground-level airport smoke in the US. Co-mentor with Tina Liu, Makoto Kelp, and Dr. Loretta Mickley. Kent Toshima (Harvard University, class of 2021) June 2020 – Aug. 2021 • Project: Application of deep learning to detection of wildfire smoke in the NOAA Hazard Mapping System over North America. Co-mentor with Tina Liu, Makoto Kelp, and Dr. Loretta Mickley. Senior thesis. HONORS AND AWARDS CASE Grand Gold Circle of Excellence Award for column and opinion writing 2021 Stonington Graduate Fellowship of Environmental Science and Engineering 2020-21 Sigma Xi associate member (Scientific Research Honor Society) June 2020 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP) April 2020 Phi Beta Kappa 2019 NOAA Ernest F. Hollings Scholarship April 2018 JacoB Wendell Scholarship Prize April 2018 Detur Book Prize FeBruary 2018 Harvard College Veritas Award April 2017 National Courage in Student Journalism prize November 2016 National Merit Scholarship 2016 MEMBERSHIPS American Meteorological Society 2021 – Present American Geophysical Union 2018 – Present LEADERSHIP AND OUTREACH Co-leader of the JacoB LaB’s machine learning suBgroup January 2021 – Present Group representative to the Harvard Engineering LaB Open House OctoBer 2020 – Present SELECTED GENERAL-AUDIENCE WRITING “Our gloBal fire crisis […]" (The Guardian, with Troy Vettese) December 2020 “Ground Control” (Harper’s Magazine) June 2020 “Losing a Chair” (Harvard Magazine) April 2020 “The Kendall Square CodeBreakers” (Fifteen Minutes Magazine) FeBruary 2019 “How Insulin Became UnaffordaBle” (Harvard Political Review) January 2018 BOOK Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics (manuscript of c. 60,000 words) will be puBlished by Verso in April 2022, coauthored with Troy Vettese. Pendergrass 3 NON-SCIENTIFIC SCHOLARLY WORK Vettese, T.G.W, Pendergrass, D.C., and Mesko, F. “Town, Country, and Wilderness: Designing the Half-Earth.” Architectural Design. forthcoming. Pendergrass, D.C., & Vettese, T. (2021). The Humanization of Nature and Half-Earth Socialism. International Labor and Working-Class History, 1-9. doi:10.1017/S0147547920000198 Pendergrass, D.C. Brutus and the ‘Bourgeois chill.’ Antiqui et Moderni: Harvard Undergraduate Medieval and Early Modern Symposium, Cambridge, Mass., May 3, 2019. Talk. NON-SCIENTIFIC INVITED TALKS, INTERVIEWS, ETC “Designing Half-Earth”, The Ground LaB at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, U.K., March 2021. With Filip Mesko and Troy Vettese. “Wildfires, the Meat Industry, and Deforestation”, Blueprint, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, FeBruary 2021. With Troy Vettese. “Half-Earth Socialism”, History and Theory of Capitalism Workshop, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., OctoBer 2020. With Troy Vettese. JOBS AND ACTIVITIES Ledecky Fellow, Harvard Magazine August 2019 – August 2020 Mentorship coordinator for Humanities 10 course September 2018 – May 2019 U.S. Politics Editor and PuBlisher, Harvard Political Review September 2017 – December 2018 Associate magazine editor and writer, The Harvard Crimson September 2016 – December 2019 Audio engineering assistant for Anthony Tan, Radcliffe Institute September 2016 – May 2017 Legal intern, Martinson and Beason, P.C. May 2016 – August 2016 2nd – 8th grade STEM teacher, Boys and Girls CluBs of North AlaBama Summers 2014, 2015 TECHNICAL SKILLS Programming: R, Python, MatlaB, Mathematica, Fortran90, Java, C/C++ Web: JavaScript, PHP, HTML/CSS, WordPress Music: Finale, ABleton for Live, Max for Live, ProTools, Audacity Other: LaTeX, Unix, Git, InDesign, Photoshop Last updated August 2021 Pendergrass 4 .