Caroline Marie B. Jaraula, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor

Contact:
cjaraula@msi.upd.edu.ph

Education:
Ph.D. Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States of America

Research Interests:
Environmental biogeochemistry, climate studies, environmental forensics biogeochemistry, organic pollutants, stable isotopes in biogeochemistry

Selected Publications:

• Enova, A.E.R., Singh, R.R., Aga, D.S., Mariano, S.M.F., Villanoy, C.L., & Jaraula, C.M.B. (November 4, 2024 – accepted). Modeling pharmaceutical contaminant transport in an urban coastal estuarine system: The case of Manila Bay, Philippines. ACS ES&T Water. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestwater.4c00736
• Lumabao, J.P.D., Otero, M.C.B., Acaso, J.T., Alviola IV, P.A., Jaraula, C.M.B., & Murao, L.A.E. (31 October 2024). An antimicrobial resistance gene situationer in the backyard swine industry of a Philippine City. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 26193. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-77124-z
• Mariano, S.M., Angeles, L.G., Aga, D., Villanoy, C., & Jaraula, C.M. (13 September 2023). Emerging pharmaceutical contaminants in key aquatic environments of the Philippines. Frontiers in Earth Science, 11, 1124313. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2023.1124313
• Otero, M.C.B., Murao, L.A.E., Limen, M.A.G., Caalim, D.R.A., Gaite, P.L.A., Bacus, M.G., Acaso, J.T., Miguel, R.M., Corazo, K., Knot, I.E., Sajonia II, H., de los Reyes III, F.L., Jaraula, C.M.B., Baja, E.S., & Del Mundo, D.M.N. (19 July 2022). Multifaceted assessment of wastewater-based epidemiology for SARS-CoV-2 in selected urban communities in Davao City, Philippines: A pilot study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(14), 8789. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19148789
• Angeles, L.F., Halwatura, L.M., Antle, J.P., Simpson, S., Jaraula, C.M.B., & Aga, D.S. (August 1, 2021). In silico supported nontarget analysis of contaminants of emerging concern: Increasing confidence in unknown identification in wastewater and surface waters. ACS ES&T Water, 1(8), 1765–1775. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestwater.1c00105
• Galarpe, V.R.K.R., Jaraula, C.M.B., & Paler, M.K.O. (June 2021). The nexus of macroplastic and microplastic research and plastic regulation policies in the Philippines marine coastal environments. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 167, 112343. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112343
• Roleda M, Jaraula C, Rodolfo R, San Diego-McGlone ML, Cardenas M, Siringan FP. 2017. The tough and tenacious: thriving in natural analogues of warmer and acidic tropical marine waters. Phycologia, 56(4 (Supplement S)), 160–161.
• Jaraula CMB, Schwark L, Moreau X, Pickel W, Bagas L, Grice K, 2015. Radiolytic alteration of biopolymers in the Mulga Rock (Australia) uranium district. Applied Geochemistry 52, 97-108.
• Jaraula CMB, Siringan FP, Klingel R, Sato H, Yokoyama Y, 2014. Records and causes of Holocene salinity shifts in Laguna de Bay, Philippines. Quaternary International 349, 207-220.
• Holman AI, Grice K, Jaraula CMB, SchimmelmannA, 2014. Bitumen II from the Paleoproterozoic Here’s Your Chance Pb/Zn/Ag deposit: Implications for the analysis of depositional environment and thermal maturity of hydrothermally-altered sediments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 139, 98-109.
• Dick JM, Evans KA, Holman A, Jaraula CMB, Grice K, 2013. Thermodynamic properties of aqueous phenanthrene& isomers of methylphenanthrene at high temperatures. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta122, 247-266.
• Jaraula CMB, Grice K, Twitchett R, Böettcher M, LeMetayer P, Dastidar AG, Opazzo LF, 2013. Elevated pCO2 leading to End Triassic Extinction, photic zone euxinia& rising sea levels. Geology 41, 955-958. http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/early/2013/07/10/G34183.1.abstractdoi: 10.1130/G34183.1.
• Greenwood PF, Brocks JJ, Grice K, Schwark L, Jaraula CMB, Dick JM, Evans KA, 2012. Organic Geochemistry & Mineralogy. I. Characterisation of Organic Matter Associated with Metal Deposits. Ore Geology Reviews 50, 1-27.
• Holman AI, Grice K, Jaraula CMB, Schimmelmann A, Brocks JJ, 2012.Efficiency of extraction of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons from the Paleoproterozoic Here’s Your ChancePb/Zn/Ag ore deposit & implications for a study of Bitumen II. Organic Geochemistry52, 81-87.
• Jaraula CMB, Brassell SC, Morgan-Kiss R, Doran PT, Kenig F, 2010. Origin & distribution of tri- to pentaunsaturated alkenones in Lake Fryxell, East Antarctica. Organic Geochemistry 41, 386-397.
• Jaraula CMB, Kenig F, Doran PT, Priscu JC, Welch KA, 2009. Composition & natural attenuation of synthetic oils & hydraulic fluid spilled on the perennial ice cover of Lake Fryxell, Antarctica. Environmental Science & Technology 43, 8, 2708-2713.
• Jaraula CMB, Kenig F, Doran PT, Priscu JC, Welch KA, 2008. SPME-GCMS study of the natural attenuation of aviation diesel on the perennial ice cover of Lake Fryxell, Antarctica. Science of the Total Environment 407, 1, 250-262. DOI:10.1016/j.scitotnv.2008.07.064.
• Ong JB, Aguda N, Jaraula CMB, Mateo ZRP, Pascua C, Foronda J, 2000. Tidal Effects on Groundwater in a very small tropical island, Science Diliman, Philippines.