Fiona McLaughlin

Fiona Ann McLaughlin
Alma materUniversity of Victoria
Scientific career
InstitutionsInstitute of Ocean Sciences
ThesisThe Canada basin, 1989-1995 : upstream events and far-field effects of the Barents Sea branch (2000)

Fiona McLaughlin is a senior Oceanographer, employed by Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans.[1][2][3] McLaughlin joined government service in 1972. Since 1994 she has concentrated on the ecology of the Arctic Ocean.

Education and career

McLauglin earned an M.Sc. from the University of Victoria in 1996 with a thesis titled "Geochemical and physical water mass properties and halocarbon ventilation in the Southern Canadian Basin of the Arctic Ocean".[4] In 2000, she finished her Ph.D. from the University of Victoria.[5]

McLaughlin has an extensive list of publications.[1]

McLaughlin has made field trips on the icebreakers of the Canadian Coast Guard.[6] In November 2009 she was one of the authors of an article in Science[7] about the acidification of the Arctic Ocean that reported that the Beaufort Sea was close to the point where the carbonate shells of plankton would begin to dissolve.

Publications

Articles
  • Itoh, Motoyo; Carmack, Eddy; Shimada, Koji; McLaughlin, Fiona; Nishino, Shigeto; Zimmermann, Sarah (2007). "Formation and spreading of Eurasian source oxygen-rich halocline water into the Canadian Basin in the Arctic Ocean". Geophysical Research Letters. 34 (8). L08603: [Washington] American Geophysical Union: L08603. Bibcode:2007GeoRL..34.8603I. doi:10.1029/2007GL029482. ISSN 0094-8276.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  • Shimada, K; McLaughlin, F; Carmack, E; Proshutinsky, A (2004). "Penetration of the 1990s warm temperature anomaly of Atlantic Water in the Canada Basin". Geophysical Research Letters. 31 (20). L20301: L20301. Bibcode:2004GeoRL..3120301S. doi:10.1029/2004GL020860. hdl:1912/3312. ISSN 0094-8276. S2CID 67755133.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
Cruise reports

References

  1. ^ a b "Fiona A. McLaughlin: Research Scientist". Department of Fisheries and Oceans. 11 December 2008. Archived from the original on 2010-07-25.
  2. ^ Jennifer Holland (January 2004). "Northern Exposure". National Geographic. Archived from the original on 2010-01-16.
  3. ^ Ed Struzik (2007). "Swirling Sea of Vast Surprises" (PDF). The 2006 Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-06. Fiona McLaughlin was one of a handful of scientists back then who tracked a stream of relatively cold, freshwater water from the Beaufort migrating all the way to the Labrador Sea. This was right around the time the cod fishery was collapsing.
  4. ^ McLaughlin, Fiona Ann (1996). Geochemical and physical water mass properties and halocarbon ventilation in the Southern Canadian Basin of the Arctic Ocean (Thesis). OCLC 858552741.
  5. ^ McLaughlin, Fiona Ann (2000). The Canada basin, 1989-1995: upstream events and far-field effects of the Barents Sea branch (Thesis). Ottawa: National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada. OCLC 47947449.
  6. ^ Margaret Munro (19 November 2009). "Climate change causing 'corrosive' water to affect Arctic marine life: study". Canwest. Archived from the original on 2009-11-25.
  7. ^ Grebmeier, J. M.; James E. Overland; Sue E. Moore; Ed V. Farley; Eddy C. Carmack; Lee W. Cooper; Karen E. Frey; John H. Helle; Fiona A. McLaughlin; S. Lyn McNutt (10 March 2006). "A Major Ecosystem Shift in the Northern Bering Sea". Science. 311 (5766): 1461–1464. Bibcode:2006Sci...311.1461G. doi:10.1126/science.1121365. PMID 16527980. S2CID 23505224.