Doprinosi akademika Mirka Maleza speleologiji u Hrvatskoj

Even as a student Mirko Malez begin in caving activity, and he continued in his professional work with science of speleology. He especially reserch and explored many locations in the Croatian Zagorje, Lika, Gorski Kotar, Istria and on some Adriatic islands. Many speleological features he described, analysed for the first time and published information about them.Particularly interesting is his long and useful activity related Croatian Speleological Society (today called Croatian Speleological Federation), and the organization of several important speleological congress and meetings. He had founded the first and only Croatian scientific speleological magazine “Spelaeologia Croatica”.