My research and teaching explores how glaciers, mountains, and the people who dwell within them are responding to ongoing climate change.

Ongoing research projects focus on the landscape and hazards responses to changing ice dynamics, the effects of climate change on meltwater resources and on mountain cultures, and the lived experiences of people living with the cascading effects of climate change in BC, Alaska, Patagonia, Greenland and the Himalayas.

I am fascinated with how the intersections of landscapes and culture are captured in oral histories, art and landform analysis, particularly the loss of ice, the imprints of human on the landscape and how we process and adapt (or maladapt) to landscape change.

2024

Fürst, J. Farías, D. Blindow, N. Casassa, G. Gacitúa, G. Koppes, M. Lodolo, E. Millan, R. Minowa, M. Mouginot, J. Pętlicki, M. Rignot, E. Rivera, A. Skvarca, Pedro. Stuefer, M. Sugiyama, S. Uribe, J. Zamora, R. Braun, M. Gillet-Chaulet, F. Malz, P. Meier, W. and M. Schaefer. 2024. The foundations of the Patagonian icefields. Nature Communications Earth & Environment 5 (142). doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-01193-7

2023

Graham, B. Briner, J. Young, N. Balter-Kennedy, A. Koppes, M. Schaefer, J. Poinar, K. and E. Thomas, E. 2023. In situ 10 Be modeling and terrain analysis constrain subglacial quarrying and abrasion at Sermeq Kujalleq (Jakobshavn Isbræ), Greenland. The Cryosphere, special issue on Icy Landscapes of the Past 17(11): 4535-4547. doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-4535-2023

Westoby, M. Dunning, S. Carrivick, J. Coulthard, T. Sain, K. Kumar, A. Berthier, E. Haritashya, U. Shean, D. Azam, M.F. Koppes, M. McCourt, H. Upadhyay, K. and D. Shugar. 2023. Rapid fluvial remobilization of sediment deposited by the 2021 Chamoli disaster, Indian Himalaya. Geology 51(10): 924-928. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/G51225.1

Koppes, M. 2023. Mountains Under Pressure. In The Canadian Mountain Assessment: Walking together to enhance understanding of mountains in Canada edited by G. McDowell, M. Stevens, S. Marshall, E. Higgs, et al, 237-317. Calgary: University of Calgary Press.

Koppes, M. 2023. Mountain Environments. In The Canadian Mountain Assessment: Walking together to enhance understanding of mountains in Canada edited by G. McDowell, M. Stevens, S. Marshall, E. Higgs, et al, 31-127. Calgary: University of Calgary Press.

Koppes, M. 2023. Desirable Mountain Futures. In The Canadian Mountain Assessment: Walking together to enhance understanding of mountains in Canada edited by G. McDowell, M. Stevens, S. Marshall, E. Higgs, et al, 319-328. Calgary: University of Calgary Press.

Reimer, C. Ruder, S. L. Koppes, M. Sundberg, J. 2023. A pedagogy of unbecoming for geosciences otherwise. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Special issue on Race, Nature and Environment. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2022.2151406

2022

Zhang, T. Li, D. East, A. Walling, D. Lane, S. Overeem, I. Beylich, A. Koppes, M. and X. Lu. 2023. Warming–driven erosion and sediment transport in cold regions. Nature Reviews Earth and Environment 3: 832–851. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017–022–00362–0

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 214: 75-140.

Li, D. X, Lu.  Walling, D. E.  Zhang, T. Steiner, J. F.  Wasson, R. J.  Harrison, S. Nepal, S. Nie, Y.  Immerzeel, W. W.  Shugar, D. H. Koppes, M. Lane, S.  Zeng, Z.  Sun, X. Yegorov, A. 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. Winter-Billington, A. Banerjee, A. Shankar, R.  Nainwal, H. C. 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. Moyer, A.  Moore, D. 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 G. Jiménez. 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. De Doncker, F. Delaney, I. Prasicek, G. 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. Jacquemart, M. Shean, D. Bhushan, S. Upadhyay, K. Sattar, A. Schwanghart, W. McBride, S. Van Wyk de Vries, M. Mergili, M. Emmer, A. Deschamps-Berger, C. McDonnell, M. Bhambri, R. Allen, S. Berthier, E. Carrivick, J. L. Clague, J. J. Dokukin, M. Dunning, S. A. Frey, H. Gascoin, S. Haritashya, U. K. Huggel, C. Kaab, A. Kargel, J. S. Kavanaugh, J. L. Lacroix, P. Petley, D. Rupper, S. Azam, M. F. Cook, S. J. Dimri, A. P. Eriksson, M. Farinotti, D. Fiddes, J. Gnyawali, K. R. Jha, M. Koppes, M. Kumar, A. Majeed, U. Mal, S. Muhuri, A. Noetzli, J. Paul, F. Rashid, I. Sain, K.Steiner, J. Ugalde, F. Watson, C. S. and 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 Treatise on Geomorphology edited by J. J. F. Shroder, 169-181. Elsevier: Academic Press.

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. doi: 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. doi: 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. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/aog.2020.1

Hughes, K. E. Geertsema, M. Kwoll, E. Koppes, M. Roberts, N. Claugue, J. and S. Rohland. 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. and O. A. Chadwick. 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. doi: 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. Kraaijenbrink, P. D. A. Kulkarni, A. V. Mayewski, P. A. Nepal, S. Pacheco, P. Painter, T. H. Pellicciotti, F. Rajaram, H. Rupper, S. Sinisalo, A. Shrestha, A. B. Viviroli, D. Wada, Y. Xiao, C. Yao, T. and J. E. M. Baillie. 2019. Importance and vulnerability of the world’s water towers. Nature 577: 364–369. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1822-y