About
Canada Research Chair in Landscapes of Climate Change
I work at the intersection of climate science, glaciology, geomorphology and human adaptation and resilience . My research focuses on the formation of glaciated landscapes and landscape response to climate change, from the temperate regions of BC, the Andes and the Himalayas to the polar regions of Greenland and Antarctica. My team and I integrate field observations, spatial analysis, numerical modeling and theory to quantify the impacts of climate change on glaciers and landscapes and the people who live among them.
Publications
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 https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2021.1913085
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