Fiona McLaughlin is a senior Oceanographer, employed by Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
[1][2][3] McLaughlin joined government service in 1972.
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".
[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.