Canada Research Chair in Landscapes of Climate Change
Wall Scholar 2022-23

My research focuses on how glaciers, landscapes, and the people who dwell within them are responding to ongoing climate change.

Some of my current research projects focus on quantifying glacier change in response to warming climate and warming oceans, the landscape and hazards responses to changing glacier dynamics, the effects of climate change on meltwater resources and on mountain cultures, and the lived experiences of people living with these changes in BC, Alaska, Patagonia, Greenland and the Himalayas.

I am fascinated with all components of geomorphic change, particularly the loss of ice, the imprints of humans on the landscape and how we process and adapt (or maladapt) to landscape change.

2022

Koppes, M. 2022. Rates and Processes of Glacial Erosion. In Treatise on Geomorphology, edited by J. F. Shroder, 169-181. Elsevier: Academic Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818234-5.00032-8

KOPPES, M. 2022. Braiding knowledges of braided rivers: the need for place-based understandings and lived experiences of landscapes into the science of scenery. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms: 1-6. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5380.

KOPPES, M. and S. IBARRA. 2022. Water Rhythms, listening of the cascading effects of climate change on the glaciers of British Columbia and beyond. Soundwork, BC Studies  103, Summer issue.

Li, D., X. Lu, D. E. Walling, R. J. Wasson, S. Harrison, S. Nepal, J. F. Steiner, Y. Nie, W. W. Immerzeel, D. H. Shugar, M. Koppes, S. Lane, T. Zeng, X. Sun, A. Yegorov, and T. Bolch. 2022. High Mountain Asia hydropower systems threatened by climate-driven landscape instability. Nature Geoscience.  doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-00953-y.

Laha, S., A. Winter-Billington, A. Banerjee, R. Shankar, H. C. Nainwal, and M. Koppes. 2022. Estimation of ice ablation on debris-covered glaciers from vertical debris-temperature profiles. Journal of Glaciology: 1-12. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2022.35

Bird, L., A. Moyer, D. Moore, and M. Koppes. 2022. Hydrology and thermal regime of an ice-contact proglacial lake: implications for stream temperature and lake evaporation. Hydrological Processes 36(4): e14566. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14566

2021

MCDOWELL, G., KOPPES, M., HARRIS, L., CHAN, K., PRICE, M. F., LAMA, D. G. and JIMÉNEZ, G. 2021. Lived experiences of ‘peak water’ in the high mountains of Nepal and Peru. Climate and Development  doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2021.1913085

HERMAN, F., F. DE DONCKER, I. DELANEY, G. PRASICEK, and M. KOPPES. 2021. Glacial erosion and its impact on the Earth surface. Nature Reviews of Earth and Environment 2: 422-435. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-021-00165-9

Shugar, D.H., M. Jacquemart, D. Shean, S. Bhushan, K. Upadhyay, A. Sattar, W. Schwanghart, S. McBride, S.,M. Van Wyk de Vries, M. Mergili, A. Emmer, C. Deschamps-Berger, M. McDonnell, R. Bhambri, S. Allen, E. Berthier, J.L. Carrivick, J.J. Clague, M. Dokukin, S.A. Dunning, H. Frey, S. Gascoin, U.K. Haritashya, C. Huggel, A. Kaab, J.S. Kargel, J.L. Kavanaugh, P. Lacroix, D. Petley, S. Rupper, M.F. Azam, S.J. Cook, S.J., A.P. Dimri, M. Eriksson, D. Farinotti, J. Fiddes, K.R. Gnyawali, M. Jha, M. Koppes, A. Kumar, U. Majeed, S. Mal, A. Muhuri, J. Noetzli, F. Paul, I. Rashid, K. Sain, J. Steiner, F. Ugalde, C.S. Watson, M.J. Westoby. 2021. A massive rock and ice avalanche caused the 2021 disaster at Chamoli, Indian Himalaya. Science 373(6552): 300-306. doi: 10.1126/science.abh4455.

2020

KOPPES, M., 2020 Rates and Processes of Glacial Erosion.  In Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences.  Elsevier  https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818234-5.00032-8

MCDOWELL, G., HARRIS, L., KOPPES, M., PRICE, M. F., CHAN, K. M. A. and LAMA, D. G. 2020 ‘From needs to actions: prospects for planned adaptations in high mountain communities’ Climatic Change 163, 953–972  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-020-02920-1

KOPPES, M. and KING, L. 2020. Beyond x,y,z(t): Navigating landscapes of science in the science of landscapes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 125, e2020JF005588. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JF005588.

WILLIAMS, H. B. and KOPPES, M. N. 2020 ‘A comparison of glacial and paraglacial denudation responses to rapid glacial retreat’ Annals of Glaciology 60(80), 151-164 https://doi.org/10.1017/aog.2020.1

HUGHES, K.E., GEERTSEMA, M., KWOLL, E., KOPPES, M., ROBERTS, N., CLAGUE, J., ROHLAND, S. 2020. Previously undiscovered landslide deposits in Harrison Lake, British Columbia, Canada. Landslides, 1-10.

Batbaatar, J., Gillespie, A.R., Rupper, S., Koppes, M., Fink, D., Matmon, A., Clark, D.H., Chadwick, O.A., 2020. Glacier development in continental climate regions of Central Asia. Geological Society of America Special Papers. SPE548: Untangling the Quaternary Period: A Legacy of Stephen C. Porter, R.B. Waitt, G.D. Thackray, and A.R. Gillespie, Eds.. https://doi.org/10.1130/2020.2548(07)

2019

IMMERZEEL, W. W., LUTZ, A. F., ANDRADE, M. BAHL, A., BIEMANS, H., BOLCH, T., HYDE, S., BRUMBY, S., DAVIES, B. J., ELMORE, A. C., EMMER, A., FENG, M., FERNÁNDEZ, A., HARITASHYA, U., KARGEL, J. S., KOPPES, M. N. […] BAILLIE, J. E. M. 2019 ‘Importance and vulnerability of the world’s water towers’ Nature 577, 364–369 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1822-y

2018

HIGMAN, B., SHUGAR, D., STARK, C., EKSTROM, G., KOPPES, M., LYNETT, P., DUFRESNE, A., HAEUSSLER, P., GEERTSEMA, M., GULICK, S., MATTOX, A., VENDITTI, J., WALTON, M., MCCALL, N., MCKITTRICK, E., MACINNES, B., BILDERBACK, E., TANG, H., WILLIS, M., RICHMOND, B., REECE, R., LARSEN, C., OLSON, B., CAPRA, J., AYCA, A., BLOOM, C., WILLIAMS, H., BONNO, D., WEISS, R., KEEN, A., SKANAVIS, V. and LOSO, M. 2018 ‘The 2015 landslide and tsunami in Taan Fiord, Alaska’ Nature Scientific Reports 8, 12993   DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-30475-w

KING, L., MACKENZIE, L., TADAKI, M., CANNON, S., MCFARLANE, K., REID, D. and KOPPES, M. 2018 ‘Diversity in geoscience: Participation, behaviour, and the division of scientific labour at a Canadian geoscience conference.’ FACETS  https://doi.org/10.1139/facets-2017-0111

BEAUD, F., VENDITTI, J., FLOWERS, G. and KOPPES, M. 2018 ‘Excavation of subglacial bedrock channels by seasonal meltwater flow’ Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 43(9), 1960-1972, https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4367

DUFRESNE, A., GEERTSMA, M., SHUGAR, D., KOPPES, M., HIGMAN, B., HAEUSSLER, P., STARK, C., VENDITTI, J., BONNO, D., LARSEN, C., GULICK, S., MCCALL, N., WALTON, M., LOSO, M. and WILLIS, M. 2018 ‘Sedimentology and geomorphology of a large tsunamigenic landslide, Taan Fiord, Alaska’ Sedimentary Geology 364, 302-318, doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2017.10.004

2017

MCDOWELL, G. and KOPPES, M. 2017 ‘Robust Adaptation Research in High Mountains: Integrating the Scientific, Social, and Ecological Dimensions of Glacio-Hydrological Change’ Water 9(10), 739, https://doi.org/10.3390/w9100739

2016

MOYER, A., MOORE, D. and KOPPES, M. 2016 ‘Streamflow response to the rapid retreat of a lake-calving glacier’ Hydrological Processes 30(20), 3650-3665, doi: 10.1002/hyp.10890

CHERNOS, M., KOPPES, M. and MOORE, R. D. 2016 ‘Ablation from calving and surface melt at lake-terminating Bridge Glacier, British Columbia, 1984-2013’ The Cryosphere 10, 87–102, doi:10.5194/tc-10-87-2016.

JAEGER, J. and KOPPES, M. 2016 ‘The role of the cryosphere in source-to-sink systems’ Earth Science Reviews 153, 43-76, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.09.011