The Triglav Glacier - 70 years of regular observations
Matej Gabrovec, ZRC SAZU - Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana (SI)
The Triglav Glacier is one of the two Slovenian glaciers, it lies in Triglav National Park. The year 2016 marks the passage of seven decades since the first survey of the glacier was carried out. At that occasion an extensive research volume and an exhibition has been prepared. The glacier size in the year 1946 was 14.4 hectares, but it has since shrunk to just less than 0.4 hectares. The glacier no longer has all of the glacial characteristics. Therefore it can only be called a glacier due to its past, when it still had all the crucial alpine glacier characteristics.