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Michele Koppes

Location: Canada
Woman standing on ice with snow and ice background

A keeper of the stories of ice and stone, Dr. Michele Koppes is a Canada Research Chair in Landscapes of Climate Change, an Associate Professor of Geography at University of British Columbia, the Director of the Climate and Cryosphere Lab and a Senior TED Fellow. Her passion is understanding how glaciers respond to climate change, and how glacier changes impact landscapes, waterscapes and people. She believes deeply that in order to address the ongoing climate emergency, there is a great need for more place-based, integrated and embodied understandings of how the lives of the ice, the mountains, the rivers and the people who dwell among them are intertwined. She spends her time exploring and collecting these acoustic stories in remote places all over the world, from the mountains of the Pacific Northwest to the Patagonian Andes, the Himalayas, the Tien Shan, the margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet, and Antarctica.

 

Commissions:

Water Rhythms – Listening To Climate Change

This project is an ongoing exploration of the sounds of ice and water as they change through climate change. Susie Ibarra, who performed at Counterflows 2018 and Dr Michele Koppes have created a podcast for Counterflows At Home which examines their findings so far with the amazing sounds of water and melting ice as it travels through communities and landscapes in different parts of the world. Read more
Field Recordings Image Live event Podcast

Live Events:

Q&A Susie Ibarra & Michele Koppes with Claire Sawers