Fiona McLaughlin is a senior Oceanographer, employed by Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans. McLaughlin joined government service in 1972. Since 1994 she has concentrated on the ecology of the Arctic Ocean.
McLaughlin has an extensive list of publications.
McLaughlin has made field trips on the icebreakers of the Canadian Coast Guard. In November 2009 she was one of the authors of an article in Science 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. L08603: [Washington] American Geophysical Union. 34.8 (8). Bibcode:2007GeoRL..3408603I. ISSN 0094-8276. doi:10.1029/2007GL029482
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. L20301. 31.20 (20). Bibcode:2004GeoRL..3120301S. ISSN 0094-8276. doi:10.1029/2004GL020860
Cruise reports
Zimmermann, Sarah; McLaughlin, Fiona (2006). "Joint Ocean Ice Study (JOIS) 2006: Cruise Report" (PDF). WHOI. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-11-21.
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 2009-11-21.
