Znanstveni interesi

• Istraživanje paleoklimatskih promjena tijekom kvartara pomoću geokemijskih značajki siga
• Monitoring spilja za pouzdaniju interpretaciju paleoklimatskog signala u sigama
• U-Th i U-Pb datiranje siga
• Dijageneza siga i njen utjecaj na točnost U-Th geokronometra

Radno iskustvo

• 2019 – danas: Viša znanstvena suradnica, Zavod za mineralne sirovine, Hrvatski geološki institut
• 2015- danas: Research Assistant, Faculty of Science, Sveučilište Melbourne, Australija
• 2018-2019: Senior Scientist – Nuclear Forensics, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology (ANSTO), Australija
• 1/2017-12/2017: Teaching Fellow, Faculty of Science, Sveučilište Melbourne, Australija

Prekidi u karijeri:

• 8/2016-1/2017 Porodiljni dopust (drugo dijete)
• 8/2014-11/2015 Porodiljni dopust (prvo dijete)

Obrazovanje

• 2016: PhD (paleoklimatologija, geokronologija i izotopna geokemija) Faculty of Science, Sveučilište Melbourne, Australija

Tema doktorata: Geochemical investigations of Corchia speleothems: Implications for past climate change

• 2006: magistra edukacije geologije i geografije, Prirodoslovno- matematički fakultet, Sveučilište u Zagrebu

Stipendije

• 2017: Stipendija za sudjelovanje na 1. radionici Speleothem Isotopes Synthesis and Analysis (SISAL) PAGES radne grupe u Dublinu, Irska
• 2016: Stipendija za pripremu poglavlja doktorske disertacije za objavu, Sveučilište Melbourne, Australija
• 2015: INQUA stipendija za sudjelovanje na XIX INQUA kongresu, Nagoya, Japan
• 2013: Stipendija za sudjelovanje na Summer School of Speleothem Science, Heidelberg, Njemačka
• 2013: Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research APN stipendija za sudjelovanje na PAGES 2^nd Young Scientists Meeting and PAGES 4^th Open Meeting, Goa, Indija
• 2011-2016: Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering Postgraduate Research Award, Australija –  Naslov projekta: The potential of Corchia Cave (Italy) speleothem trace element and radiocarbon variations as indicators of past environmental change

• 2011-2016: Melbourne International Research Scholarship (MIRS), Australija
• 2011-2016: Melbourne International Fee Remission Scholarship (MIFRS), Australija

Projekti i suradnje

• 2019- danas Suradnica na projektu “Porijeklo i taloženje sedimenata u vrijeme kasno kvartarnih promjena morske razine: Sustav rijeke Krke i Srednjojadranske kotline (QMAD) (HRZZ istraživački projekt, PI Dr.sc. Slobodan Miko)

Bibliografija

• Petra Bajo ResearchGate  (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Petra_Bajo)

Popis radova

• Bajo, P., Drysdale, R., Woodhead, J., Hellstrom, J., Hodell, D., Ferretti, P., Voelker, A.H.L., Wolff, E., Zanchetta, G., Rodrigues, T., Wollf, E., Tyler, J., Frisia, S., Spötl, C., Fallick, A.E. 2020. Persistent influence of obliquity on ice age terminations since the Middle Pleistocene transition. Science 367 (6483), 1235-1239.
• Hellstrom, J., Sniderman, J.M.K., Drysdale, R., Couchoud, I., Hartland A., Pearson, A., Bajo, P. 2020. Speleothem growth intervals reflect New Zealand montane vegetation response to temperature change over the last glacial cycle. Scientific Reports 10(1), 2492.
• Tîrlă, L., Drăgușin, V., Bajo, P. , Covaliov,S. , Cruceru, N., Ersek,V., Hanganu, D., Hellstrom, J., Hoffmann,D., Mirea,I., Sava, S. , Sava G., Şandric, I. 2020. Quaternary environmental evolution in the South Carpathians reconstructed from glaciokarst geomorphology and sedimentary archives. Geomorphology 354, 107038.
• Sniderman, J.M.K., Hellstrom, J., Woodhead, J., Drysdale, R., Bajo, P., Archer, M., Hatcher, L. Vegetation and climate change in Southwestern Australia during the Last Glacial Maximum. 2019. Geophysical Research Letters 46 (3), 1709-1720.
• Isola I., Ribolini A., Zanchetta G., Bini M., Regattieri E., Drysdale R.N., Hellstrom J.C., Bajo P., Montagna, P., Pons-Branchu,E. 2019. Speleothem U/Th age constraints for the Last Glacial conditionsover the Apuan Alps, Northwestern Italy. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 518, 62-71.
• Vanghi, V., Borsato, A., Frisia, S., Howard, D.L., Gloy, G., Hellstrom, J., Bajo, P. High-resolution synchrotron X-ray fluorescence investigation of calcite coralloid speleothems: Elemental incorporation and their potential as environmental archives, Sedimentology 66 (7), 2661-2685.
• Isola I., Zanchetta G., Drysdale R.N., Regattieri E., Bini M., Bajo P., Hellstrom J., Baneschi I., Lionello P., Woodhead J., Greig A. 2019. The 4.2 ka BP event in the Central Mediterranean: New data from Corchia speleothems (Apuan Alps, central Itay). Climate of the Past 15(1), 135-151.
• Vanghi, V., Borsato, A., Frisia, S., Drysdale, R., Hellstrom, J., Bajo, P., 2018. Climate variability on the Adriatic seaboard during the last glacial inception and MIS 5c from Frasassi Cave stalagmite record. Quaternary Science Reviews 201, 349-361.
• Johnston, V.E., Borsato, A., Frisia, S., Spötl, C., Dublyansky, Y., Töchterle, P., Hellstrom, J.C., Bajo, P., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H. and Eggins, S. 2018. Evidence of thermophilisation and elevation-dependent warming during the Last Interglacial in the Italian Alps. Scientific Reports 8(1), 2680.
• Rossi, C., Bajo, P., Hellstrom, J., Lozano, R.P., 2018. Younger Dryas to Early Holocene paleoclimate in Cantabria (N Spain): constraints from speleothem Mg, annual fluorescence banding and stable isotope records. Quaternary Science Reviews 192, 71-85.
• Atsawawaranunt K., Comas-Bru L., Amirnezhad Mozhdehi S., Deininger M., Harrison S.P., Baker, A., Boyd M., Kaushal N., Masood Ahmad S., Ait Brahim Y., Arienzo M., Bajo P., Braun K., Burstyn Y, Chawchai S., Duan W., Hatvani I.G., Hu J., Kern Z., Labuhn I., Lachniet M., Lechleitner F.A., Lorrey A., Pérez-Mejías, C., Pickering R., Scroxton N., and SISAL Working Group Members. 2018. The SISAL database: a global resource to document oxygen and carbon isotope records from speleothems. Earth System Science Data 10, 1687–1713.
• , J., Abram, N.J., Lewis, S.C., Bajo, P., Hellstrom, J., Troitzch, U., Heslop, D., 2018. Tropical Indo-Pacific hydroclimate response to North Atlantic forcing during the last deglaciation as recorded by a speleothem from Sumatra, Indonesia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 492, 264-278.
• Regattieri, E., Zanchetta, G., Isola, I., Bajo, P., Boschi, C., Perchiazzi, N., Drysdale, R., Hellstrom, J., Francke, A., Wagner, B., 2018. A MIS 9/ MIS 8 speleothem record of environmental and hydrological variability from Macedonia (F.Y.R.O.M.). Global and Planetary Change 162, 39-52.
• Bajo, P., Borsato, A., Drysdale, R., Hua, Q., Frisia, , Zanchetta, G., Hellstrom, J., Woodhead, J., 2017. Stalagmite carbon isotopes and dead carbon proportion (DCP) in a closed system situation: an interplay between sulfuric and carbonic acid dissolution. Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta 210, 2018-227.
• Frisia, S., Weyrich, L.S., Hellstrom, J., Borsato, A., Golledge, R., Anesio, A.M., Bajo, P., Drysdale R.N., Augustinus, P., Rivard, C., Cooper, A., 2017. The influence of Antarctic subglacial volcanism on the global iron cycle during the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature Communications 8, 15425.
• Nagra, G., Treble, P.C., Andersen, M.S., Bajo, P., Hellstrom, J., Baker, A., 2017. Dating stalagmites in mediterranean climates using annual trace element cycles. Scientific Reports 7(1), 449.
• Chiarini, V., Couchoud, I., Drysdale, R., Bajo, P., Milanolo, S., Frisia, S., Hellstrom, J., De Waele, J., 2017. Application of petrography micrologging in deciphering seasonal variations in Holocene stalagmites. International Journal of Speleology 46(1), 33-49.
• Columbu, A., Drysdale, R., Capron, E., Woodhead, J., De Waele, J., Sanna, L., Hellstrom, J., Bajo, P., 2017. Early last glacial intra-interstadial climate variability recorded in a Sardinian speleothem. Quaternary Science Reviews 169, 391-379.
• Surić, M., Lončarić, R., Buzjak, N., Lončar, N., Drysdale, R., Bajo, P., 2017. Characterization of the cave environments at varying altitudes on the Eastern Adriatic coast (Croatia)- Implications for the speleothem-based studies. Journal of Hydrology 545, 367-380.
• Bajo, P., Hellstrom, J., Frisia, S., Drysdale, R., Black, J., Woodhead, J., Borsato, A., Zanchetta, G., Wallace, M.W., Regattieri, E., Haese, R., 2016. “Cryptic” diagenesis and its implications for speleothem geochronologies. Quaternary Science Reviews 148, 17-28.
• Columbu, A., De Waele, J., Forti, P., Montagna, P., Picotti, V., Pons-Branchu, E., Hellstrom, J., Bajo, P., Drysdale, R., 2015. Gypsum caves as indicators of climate-driven river incision and aggradation in a rapidly uplifting region. Geology 43, 539-542.
• Bajo, P., Drysdale, R., Woodhead, J., Hellstrom, J., Zanchetta, G., High-resolution U-Pb dating of an Early Pleistocene stalagmite from Corchia Cave (central Italy). Quaternary Geochronology 14, 5-17.
• Woodhead, J., Hellstrom, J., Pickering, R., Drysdale, R., Paul, B., Bajo, P., 2012. U and Pb variability in older speleothems and strategies for their chronology. Quaternary Geochronology 14, 105-113.
• Drysdale, R.N., Paul, B., Hellstrom, J., Couchoud, I., Greig, A., Bajo, P., Zanchetta, G., Isola, I., Spötl, C., Baneschi, I., Regattieri, E., Woodhead, J., 2012. Precise microsampling of poorly laminated speleothems for U-series dating. Quaternary Geochronology 14, 38- 47.
• Bajo, P., Speleogeneza špilje u kamenolomu Debeljača. Hrvatski geografski glasnik, 68/1, 99-108.
• Bajo, P., Surić, M., 2017. Sige i klima. Poglavlje u knjizi: Speleologija. PDS Velebit, SK Velebit, Hrvatski planinarski savez i HGSS.