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.

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.

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

• Zimmermann, Sarah; McLaughlin, Fiona (2006). "Joint Ocean Ice Study (JOIS) 2006: Cruise Report" (PDF). WHOI. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-04-01.
• Zimmermann, Sarah; McLaughlin, Fiona (2004). "2004 Joint Western Arctic Circulation Study and Beaufort Gyre Freshwater Experiment; Cruise Report" (PDF). WHOI. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-04-01.