Earth Scientist
Earth Scientist

Biography

Brinda Yarlagadda is an Earth Scientist at the Joint Global Change Research Institute. She holds a joint appointment with the Center for Global Sustainability at the University of Maryland. Her research focuses on modeling resource supply, trade dynamics, and supply chains in the Global Change Analysis Model (GCAM). Some of her recent work has included developing bilateral trade representation of liquefied natural gas and other fossil fuels and representation of supply curves for critical minerals and materials. She earned her PhD in public policy from the University of Maryland, and her dissertation focused on the interactions between trade and climate mitigation policies in energy and agricultural sectors.

Disciplines and Skills

  • Multi-sector dynamics
  • Energy system modeling
  • Trade
  • Critical minerals

Education

  • PhD in Environmental Policy, University of Maryland, College Park
  • BS in Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Publications

2025

  • Yarlagadda B.N., X. Zhao, G.C. Iyer, T.B. Wild, N. Hultman, and J.R. Lamontagne. 2025. "Emissions leakage and economic losses may undermine deforestation-linked oil crop import restrictions." Nature Communications 16:Art. No. 1520. PNNL-SA-196760. doi:10.1038/s41467-025-56693-1

2024

  • Nikas A., N. Frilingou, C. Heussaff, P. Fragkos, S. Mittal, J. Sampedro, and S. Giarola, et al. 2024. "Three different directions in which the European Union could replace Russian natural gas." Energy 290. PNNL-ACT-SA-10778. doi:10.1016/j.energy.2024.130254
  • Qiu Y., G.C. Iyer, N.T. Graham, M.T. Binsted, M.A. Wise, P.L. Patel, and B.N. Yarlagadda. 2024. "The impacts of material supply availability on a transitioning electric power sector." Cell Reports Sustainability 1, no. 10:Art. No. 100221. PNNL-SA-193429. doi:10.1016/j.crsus.2024.100221
  • Sampedro J., D.P. Van De Ven, R. Horowitz, C. Rodes-Bachs, N. Frilingou, A. Nikas, and M.T. Binsted, et al. 2024. "Energy system analysis of cutting off Russian gas supply to the European Union." Energy Strategy Reviews 54, no. _:Art. No. 101450. PNNL-ACT-SA-10794. doi:10.1016/j.esr.2024.101450
  • Yarlagadda B.N., G.C. Iyer, M.T. Binsted, P.L. Patel, M.A. Wise, and J.D. McLeod. 2024. "The Future Evolution of Global Natural Gas Trade." iScience 27, no. 2:Art. No. 108902. PNNL-SA-182445. doi:10.1016/j.isci.2024.108902

2023

  • Yarlagadda B.N., T. Wild, X. Zhao, L. Clarke, R. Cui, Z. Khan, and A. Birnbaum, et al. 2023. "Trade and Climate Mitigation Interactions Create Agro-Economic Opportunities with Social and Environmental Trade-offs in Latin America and the Caribbean." Earth's Future 11, no. 4:Art. No. e2022EF003063. PNNL-SA-175593. doi:10.1029/2022EF003063

2022

  • Birnbaum A., J.R. Lamontagne, T. Wild, F.C. Dolan, and B.N. Yarlagadda. 2022. "Drivers of Future Physical Water Scarcity and its Economic Impacts in Latin America and the Caribbean." Earth's Future 10, no. 8:Art. No. e2022EF002764. PNNL-SA-170875. doi:10.1029/2022EF002764
  • Khan Z., M. Zhao, C.R. Vernon, T. Wild, and B.N. Yarlagadda. 2022. "rmap: An R package to plot and compare tabular data on customizable maps across scenarios and time." Journal of Open Source Software 7, no. 77:4015. PNNL-SA-168873. doi:10.21105/joss.04015
  • Liu Y., D. Tong, J. Cheng, S.J. Davis, S. Yu, B.N. Yarlagadda, and L. Clarke, et al. 2022. "Role of climate goals and clean-air policies on reducing future air pollution deaths in China: a modelling study." The Lancet Planetary Health 6, no. 2:e92-e99. PNNL-ACT-SA-10540. doi:10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00326-0
  • Yoon J.J., P. Romero-Lankao, E.Y. Yang, C. Klassert, N. Urban, K.E. Kaiser, and K. Keller, et al. 2022. "A Typology for Characterizing Human Action in MultiSector Dynamics Models." Earth's Future 10, no. 8:Art. No. e2021EF002641. PNNL-SA-170057. doi:10.1029/2021EF002641

2021

  • Wild T., Z. Khan, L. Clarke, M.I. Hejazi, J.C. Lacal Bereslawski, M.P. Suriano, and P. Roberts, et al. 2021. "Integrated Energy-Water-Land Nexus Planning in the Colorado River Basin (Argentina)." Regional Environmental Change 21, no. 3:62. PNNL-SA-155381. doi:10.1007/s10113-021-01775-1
  • Wild T.B., Z. Khan, M. Zhao, M.P. Suriano, J.C. Lacal Bereslawski, P. Roberts, and J. Casado, et al. 2021. "The Implications of Global Change for the Co-Evolution of Argentina’s Integrated Energy-Water-Land Systems." Earth's Future 9, no. 8:Article No. e2020EF001970. PNNL-SA-165243. doi:10.1029/2020EF001970
  • Zhao M., M.T. Binsted, T.B. Wild, Z. Khan, B.N. Yarlagadda, G.C. Iyer, and C.R. Vernon, et al. 2021. "plutus: An R package to calculate electricity investments and stranded assets from the Global Change Analysis Model (GCAM)." Journal of Open Source Software 6, no. 65:3212. PNNL-SA-162209. doi:10.21105/joss.03212

2020

  • Yu S., B.N. Yarlagadda, J.E. Siegel, S. Zhou, and S.H. Kim. 2020. "The role of nuclear in China’s energy future: insights from integrated assessment." Energy Policy 139. PNNL-ACT-SA-10412. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111344