Fiona McLaughlin
{{short description|Canadian oceanographer}}
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| workplaces = Institute of Ocean Sciences
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| alma_mater = University of Victoria
| thesis_title = The Canada basin, 1989-1995 : upstream events and far-field effects of the Barents Sea branch
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Fiona McLaughlin is a senior Oceanographer, employed by Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
{{cite news
|url = http://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/SCI/osap/people/mclaughlin_e.htm
|title = Fiona A. McLaughlin: Research Scientist
|publisher = Department of Fisheries and Oceans
|date = 11 December 2008
|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20100725043351/http://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/sci/osap/people/mclaughlin_e.htm
|archivedate = 2010-07-25
|url-status = dead
{{cite news
|url = http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0401/feature6/fulltext.html
|title = Northern Exposure
|work = National Geographic
|date = January 2004
|author = Jennifer Holland
|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20100116190244/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0401/feature6/fulltext.html
|archivedate = 2010-01-16
|url-status = dead
{{cite news
|url = http://www.atkinsonfoundation.ca/files/Arctic_in_Peril.pdf
|title = Swirling Sea of Vast Surprises
|publisher = The 2006 Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy
|year = 2007
|quote = 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.
|author = Ed Struzik
|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110706164921/http://www.atkinsonfoundation.ca/files/Arctic_in_Peril.pdf
|archivedate = 2011-07-06
|url-status = dead
}} 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".{{Cite thesis|title=Geochemical and physical water mass properties and halocarbon ventilation in the Southern Canadian Basin of the Arctic Ocean|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/858552741|date=1996|language=English|first=Fiona Ann|last=McLaughlin|oclc = 858552741}} In 2000, she finished her Ph.D. from the University of Victoria.{{Cite thesis|title=The Canada basin, 1989-1995: upstream events and far-field effects of the Barents Sea branch|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47947449|publisher=National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada|date=2000|place=Ottawa|language=English|first=Fiona Ann|last=McLaughlin|oclc = 47947449}}
McLaughlin has an extensive list of publications.
McLaughlin has made field trips on the icebreakers of the Canadian Coast Guard.
{{cite news
|url = http://www.canada.com/technology/Climate+change+causing+corrosive+water+affect+Arctic+marine+life+study/2242554/story.html
|title = Climate change causing 'corrosive' water to affect Arctic marine life: study
|publisher = Canwest
|date = 19 November 2009
|author = Margaret Munro
|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20091125010608/http://www.canada.com/technology/Climate+change+causing+corrosive+water+affect+Arctic+marine+life+study/2242554/story.html
|archivedate = 2009-11-25
|url-status = dead
}} In November 2009 she was one of the authors of an article in Science{{cite journal |last1=Grebmeier |first1=J. M. |author-link=Jacqueline M. Grebmeier|author2=James E. Overland|author3=Sue E. Moore|author4=Ed V. Farley|author5=Eddy C. Carmack|author6=Lee W. Cooper|author7=Karen E. Frey|author8=John H. Helle|author9=Fiona A. McLaughlin|author10=S. Lyn McNutt |title=A Major Ecosystem Shift in the Northern Bering Sea |journal=Science |date=10 March 2006 |volume=311 |issue=5766 |pages=1461–1464 |doi=10.1126/science.1121365|pmid=16527980 |bibcode=2006Sci...311.1461G |s2cid=23505224 }} 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
- {{Cite journal
|last1=Itoh
|first1=Motoyo
|year=2007
|title=Formation and spreading of Eurasian source oxygen-rich halocline water into the Canadian Basin in the Arctic Ocean
|last2=Carmack
|first2=Eddy
|last3=Shimada
|first3=Koji
|last4=McLaughlin
|first4=Fiona
|publisher=[Washington] American Geophysical Union
|journal=Geophysical Research Letters
|volume=34
|location=L08603
|issn=0094-8276
|doi=10.1029/2007GL029482
|bibcode=2007GeoRL..34.8603I
|last5=Nishino
|first5=Shigeto
|last6=Zimmermann
|first6=Sarah
|issue=8
|pages=L08603
|doi-access=free
}}
- {{Cite journal |last1=Shimada |first1=K |year=2004 |title=Penetration of the 1990s warm temperature anomaly of Atlantic Water in the Canada Basin |doi=10.1029/2004GL020860 |last2=McLaughlin |first2=F |last3=Carmack |first3=E |last4=Proshutinsky |first4=A |journal=Geophysical Research Letters |volume=31 |location=L20301 |issn=0094-8276 |bibcode=2004GeoRL..3120301S |issue=20 |pages=L20301 |hdl=1912/3312 |s2cid=67755133 |hdl-access=free }}
;Cruise reports
- {{cite news
|url = http://www.whoi.edu/beaufortgyre/pdfs/2006-18_Cruise_Report.pdf
|title = Joint Ocean Ice Study (JOIS) 2006: Cruise Report
|publisher = WHOI
|first1 = Sarah
|last1 = Zimmermann
|first2 = Fiona
|last2 = McLaughlin
|year = 2006
|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110401170647/http://www.whoi.edu/beaufortgyre/pdfs/2006-18_Cruise_Report.pdf
|archivedate = 2011-04-01
|url-status = dead
}}
- {{cite news
|url = http://www.whoi.edu/beaufortgyre/pdfs/2004-16_Cruise_Report.pdf
|title = 2004 Joint Western Arctic Circulation Study and Beaufort Gyre Freshwater Experiment; Cruise Report
|publisher = WHOI
|year = 2004
|first1 = Sarah
|last1 = Zimmermann
|first2 = Fiona
|last2 = McLaughlin
|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110401170616/http://www.whoi.edu/beaufortgyre/pdfs/2004-16_Cruise_Report.pdf
|archivedate = 2011-04-01
|url-status = dead
}}
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