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Ferdo Basic, Ph.D.
Full Professor of University
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb
Department of General Agronomy
Svetosimunska 25, 10000 Zagreb
Collegiate building (g), single-story house
+385 /1/239 3815
+385 /1/239 3981
e-mail: fbasic@agr.hr

Teaching

Undergraduate program
General Agronomy (leader)
Soil and water conservation (leader)
Agroecology - Faculty of mathematics and natural sciences (leader)
Graduate program
Soil and water conservation (leader)
Sustainable Land management (leader)
Sustainable Land management (leader) - Faculty of mining and Earth oil exploitation
Soil conservation Faculty of agriculture University of Sarajevo - Bosnia and Herzegovina

Research interests

Soil tillage
Soil conservation
Ecological agriculture
Soil fertilization
Farming Systems

Current projects

1990 - 2003
Soil protection and Soil monitoring within Working Associations of Alps - Adria and Danube basin countries
Ministry of Agriculture nad Forestry of Republic of Croatia
Ferdo Bašić - Faculty of Agriculture University of Zagreb
2003
Monitoring of Soil and Agroecosystem of the area of influence of Central earth - gas station - CPS Molve.
Department of Public Health of Koprivničko-križevačka county
Ferdo Bašić - Faculty of Agriculture University of Zagreb
2002 - 2006
Influence of Nitrogen fertilization on Nitrogen distribution in agroecosystem
Ministry of Science and Technology of republic of Croatia
Milan Mesić - Faculty of Agriculture University of Zagreb
1996 - 2003
Recultivation of soils damaged by mud pits of earth-oil and earth-gas exploitation in Croatia
INA - Industry of earth-oil - Zagreb
Ferdo Bašić - Faculty of Agriculture University of Zagreb
2002 - 2006
Erosion risk as indicator of Sustainable Land Managemnet in Agriculture
Ministry of Science and Technology of republic of Croatia
Ivica Kisić - Faculty of Agriculture University of Zagreb

Academic qualifications

1984
Ph.D.
Faculty of Agriculture University of Sarajevo
Dynamics of Redox Potential iron and managanese in some soils
1974
M.Sc.
Faculty of Agriculture University of Zagreb
Redox Potential in some Hydromorphic soils of Sava valey in Croatia

Training and research experience


Employment and work experience

1984 - now
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb
1973-1984
Higher Agricultural college - Križevci
1972-1973
Institute of Soil Science and Soil Technolgy - Zagreb
1965
Public Agricultural farm - Županja
1964-1965
Agricultural co-operation Selenča - Vojvodina

Past projects

1996 - 2002
Water erosion and Sustainable Land Managements in Central Croatia
Ministry of Science and Technology of republic of Croatia
Ferdo Bašić
1998 - 2001
COMPARATIVE LONG TERM INVESTIGATIONS OF WATER EROSION IN AGRO - ECOLOGICAL CONDITIONS OF AUSTRIA, CROATIA AND HUNGARY (Trilateral Project)
Ministry of Science and Technology of republic of Croatia
Ferdo Bašić
1989 - 1993
INTENŹSITY OF SOIL EROSION ON FERRALITIC SOILS OF HORO ALLELTU FARM IN WOLEGA PROVINCE - ETHIOPIA
Ekonomsko tehnički zavod - Osijek
Ferdo Bašić
1986 - 1990
UNTERSUCHUNG DER WIRKSAMKEIT VON NATÜRLICHEN BODENHILFSSTOFFEN ZUR REGENERATION DEGRADIERTER WALDBÖDEN IN TIROL - AUSTRIJA
Institut za razvoj i međunarodne odnose – IRMO - Zagreb
Tugomir Filipan
1972 - 1985
OPĆA PEDOLOŠKA KARTA HRVATSKE MJERILA 1:50 000
Ministry of Science and Technology of republic of Croatia
Arso Škorić

Other professional activities

1996
Co-ordinator of preparation of National report on Food security
World Food Summit - Rome
Member of Delegation of Croatia
1996-2000
President of management Board
Higher Agricultural college - Križevci
President of management Board
1994-1998
Delegate of Faculty in ICA
Interuniversity Conference of Agricultural and related sciences - ICA
Delegate of Faculty in ICA
1986 - 1988 and 1993
President
Croatian Society of Soil Science
President
1993 - 1997.
Deputy dean for scientific affairs
Faculty of agricultured University of Zagreb
Deputy dean for scientific affairs

Scientific publications

Bašić,F., Šalinović,I., Bašić,I., Kellkayyelah,A., Butorac,A. (1991). PossibilŹities of Soil Conservation by Means of Different Tillage Systems of Acric Ferralsol of the Ethiopian Plateau. Proceedings of 12th Conference of InternaŹtional Soil Tillage research Organization, Soil Tillage and Agricultural Sustainability, 58-60, Ibadan-Nigeria.

Bašić,F., Vidaček,Ž., Petraš,J., Racz,Z. (1992). Distribution and regional Peculiarities of Soil Erosion in Croatia. Poljoprivredna znanstvena smotra, Zagreb, Vol. 57, br.3-4, 503-518.
Bašić,F., O.Nestroy, I.Kisić, A.Butorac i M.Mesić. (1998). Zaštita od erozije - ključna uloga obrade tla u aktualnim i izmijenjenim klimatskim prilikama. HAZU - Znanstveni skup s međunarodnim sudjelovanjem - Prilagodba poljoprivrede i šumarstva klimi i njenim promjenama, Zagreb, str. 115-125.

Bašić,F., Butorac,A., Šalinović,I., Bašić,I. (1993). Agroecological Study of Horo Alleltu Farmland, Proposal for Preliminary Project of Integral Soil Conservation-Guidelines for Conservation Farming System. Final revised verŹsion, Nekemte - Agroindustrial Project, Ministry of State Farms, Coffee and Tea Development-North Western Agricultural Development Corporation, Addis Ababa-Ethiopia, ETZ-Osijek-Republic of Croatia, rukopis, stručni spisi Zavoda za opću proizvodnju bilja Agronomskog fakulteta, Zagreb-Osijek str. 111.

Müller,Ch., Holenstein,J., Herzog,U., Bašić,F., Aichberger,K., Gruber,A., Juritsch,G., Goller,H, Bendova,H., Hudnik,V., Hodnik,A., Huber,W., Nemeth,T., Scherer,J. (1994). Bodendauerbeobach-tungsflächen, Emphelung einer abgestimmten VorgeŹhenweise der Unterarbeitsgruppe "Boden-Dauerbeobachtungsflächen" der gemeinŹsame Arbeitsgruppe "Bodenschutz", ArGe Alp, Alpen-Adria und Donauländer. Staatsminist. für Landesentwicklung und Umweltfragen, München, 27.

Bašić,F., Kisić,I., Mesić,M., Butorac,A. (1997). Soil erosion in different tillage systems on stagnosol in Croatia. Proceedings of 14th Conference of and International Soil Tillage Research Organiz. - ISTRO, Pulawy, 63-67.

Bašić,F., Kisić,I., Nestroy,O., Butorac,A., Mesić,M., Marušić,J. (1999). Erosion risk as indicator of sustainability of land-management in four field crop rotation: maize-soybean-winter wheat-oil rape. Proc. of Intern. Conference: Soil conservation in large scale land use, Bratislava, p.131-141

Bašić, F., I. Kisić, V. Bićanić, R. Tadić, M. Mesić, (2000). Soil degradation and soil protection in Croatia. Conference of soils in Central European Countries, New Indenpendent States, Central Asian Countries and in Mongolia. Present situation and future prospects, Prague p. 58-68.

Bašić F., Kisić I., Butorac A., Nestroy O., Mesić M. (2001). Runoff and soil loss under different tillage methods on Stagnic Luvisols in central Croatia. Soil & Tillage Research, vol. 62 (3-4): 145-151. [www.elsevier.com/locate/still/Abstracts/]

Bašić F., Kisić I., Nestroy O., Mesić M., Butorac A. (2002). Particle Size Distribution (Texture) of Eroded Soil Material. Journal Agronomy & Crop Science, 188 (5):311-322. [http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1046/j.1439-037X.2002.00571.x/abs/]


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