IN MEMORIAM: Professor ANDREA BAČANI, PhD, BSc in Geology (1954

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IN MEMORIAM: Professor ANDREA BAČANI, PhD, BSc in Geology (1954 – 2018)

Journal Title: UNKNOWN - Year 2018, Vol 33, Issue 3

Abstract

Our dear and highly respected Andrea Baþani (née Župariü), full professor of the Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering, University of Zagreb, passed away on February 24, 2018. Professor Baþani was employed at the Department of Geology and Geological Engineering at the Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering, University of Zagreb from 1979 until 2018. For the ¿rst 18 years she was a collaborator in the projects of Professor Pavao Miletiü, and in 1992 she became an assistant. Since then, she advanced through all professional levels until she became a tenured full professor in 2011. In the course of her long and fruitful working life she dedicated herself to scienti¿c, professional and pedagogical work in the area of technical sciences, ¿eld of Mining, Petroleum Engineering and Geological Engineering, to the branch of Geological Engineering. She was an accomplished hydrogeologist. Professor Andrea Baþani was born on August 12, 1954 in Zagreb, where she ¿nished elementary school and a comprehensive secondary school. She graduated from the Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering, University of Zagreb on December 22, 1978 and became a BSc of Geology. The title of her graduation thesis was Engineering-geological characteristics of the wider area of the Brezovo polje-Žirovac route. Professor Baþani had shown an interest in pursuing a scienti¿c career even as a student when she was awarded a Chancellor’s Award in the academic year 1977/1978. This award is presented only to the best students. Her exceedingly rich pedagogical, scienti¿c and professional career began in 1979 at the Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering, University of Zagreb, when she started working at the Department for Engineering Geology, Hydrogeology, Geology of coal and petroleum as a professional collaborator. She immediately started working on hydrogeological exploration for the Eastern Slavonian Posavina water supply project, led by Professor Pavao Miletiü. Her tasks consisted of controlling the creation of structural and piezometric drill holes and test and exploratory wells as well as test pumping. The work was conducted across a wide area to the north of the Sava River, between Slavonski Brod in the west and Lipovac in the east as well as south of the watershed dividing the catchment areas of the rivers Sava and Drava. Since that work was occasionally done using as many as three drilling apparatuses, it was necessary to travel very frequently, sometimes as much as twice or three times a week to that area. Andrea immediately took part in this work, showing a great deal of interest. With her collaborators she travelled many dozens of times to Slavonia, frequently driving her own car, Zastava 850, and in this way gathered her ¿rst experiences as a driver. She was very successful working in the ¿eld although the work was often fraught with dif¿culty. Through her approach and behaviour, she asserted her authority and earned the respect of her colleagues and co-workers. She also worked in the laboratory, interpreting the data, creating studies and research programs as well as preparing competition materials. She defended her Master’s thesis at the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb on May 18, 1990. The thesis was entitled The inÀuence of poorly permeable sediments on the renewal of groundwater supply using the example of Eastern Slavonia.

Authors and Affiliations

Zoran Nakić, Darko Mayer, Kristijan Posavec, Ranko Žugaj, Jelena Parlov, Dario Perković, Zoran Kovač

Keywords

MEMORIAM

EP ID EP30231
DOI https://doi.org/10.17794/rgn.2018.3.12
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