CV

Work experience

• April 2022 - Present: Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Center, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, St. John’s, NL
  • Physical Scientist III
  • Supervisor: Dr. Frédéric Cyr
• January 2022 - April 2022: Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Halifax, NS
  • Physical Scientist II
  • Supervisor: Dr. Rachel Horwitz

Skills

• Scientific & Statistical Analysis
  • 6+ years experience using Python and Ubuntu. Used both daily for determining spatio-temporal data analysis methods including empirical orthogonal functions (including common variants), high-pass and low-pass filters, linear regression, and self-organizing maps. Highly skilled in using NumPy, SciPy, and matplotlib Python packages. Proficient in Jupyter notebooks.
  • 6+ years of experience in GIS figure and graphic creation using Python, including spatial figures and animations containing maps. Skilled in efficiently and effectively creating scientific figures that successfully illustrate important research findings. Contributed figures for other colleagues on multiple presentations and publications.
  • Creating and maintaining multiple published large oceanographic data products, with the aim of distributing analysis-ready products to the wider public. Extensive experience creating the underlying methodology and delivering large-scale spatio-temporal data products using Python and Ubuntu in NetCDF file format.
  • Researching and implementing multiple levels of quality assurance and control with specific methodologies tailored to each data product. Various statistical analyses are used to better flag potential problem measurements, and appropriate metadata is provided to ensure that end users are properly informed.
• Community Engagement & Field Work
  • Participating as the lead reporting physical oceanographer in multi-stakeholder meetings, involving federal, provincial, local, private, and Indigenous partners. Findings presented at the meeting are used to help inform future federal environmental policy. Lead author of the accompanying yearly physical oceanographic technical report.
  • Leading the Newfoundland region ocean glider program. This involves the coordinating of deployment and recovery missions with local partners in small coastal communities. Regular communication and scientific contributions are also made with other regions’ ocean glider programs.
  • Participating in multiple field-going oceanographic missions per year as part of the Atlantic Zone Monitoring Program. This involves the monitoring of physical and biogeochemical processes throughout the Newfoundland and Labrador region and requires being far offshore for 3-4 weeks at time in extreme weather conditions.
  • Familiar with a variety of oceanographic instrumentation including CTDs, Niskins, passive acoustics (hydrophones), ADCPs, gliders, and a variety of mooring-based instruments.
  • Presenting research findings to large and academically diverse audiences. Skilled in presenting research findings to groups with varying levels of background knowledge on a particular subject in both an oral and written format.
  • Highly skilled at working within multidisciplinary groups, including regular communication with regional and international partners. Was the lead author for a published data product containing almost all ocean profile measurements (over 800,000) taken in the Northwest Atlantic and Arctic from 1912 to 2024 , which involved cooperating with over 10 independent organizations, and included accompanying configuration and quality control documentation.
  • Providing end users with data products that are formatted for their particular needs, including in NetCDF and csv formats. Routinely providing support to end users to help resolve any issues that may arise.
• Project Management
  • CSAS – Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat
    • Lead reporting physical oceanographer for the Newfoundland and Labrador region, providing climate advice on the setting of yearly fishery quotas.
    • Engage with multiple stakeholders on culturally and economically important species.
  • ICES Climate Report – International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
    • Collaborating on the ICES Baffin Bay climate report using data products that I created.
  • COD-REMAP – Climate and ocean dynamics informing resource management and adaptation policy
    • Exploring how the abundance and distribution of fish species on the Northwest Atlantic are linked to changing physical and biological ocean conditions over the last 2000 years.
    • Providing and communicating physical oceanographic results to group members, along with writing the ‘Climate’ section of the published paper.

Education

• M.Sc. in Ocean Science (physical oceanography), Dalhousie University, 2022
  • Thesis: Sea Surface Temperature Trends and Variability in the Northwest Atlantic
  • Masters research included the study of multiple climate change scenarios using climate model output and how they would impact ocean temperature variability in the Northwest Atlantic
• B.Sc. in Ocean Science with Honours, Dalhousie University, 2019
  • Trends and Variability in Marine Heatwaves off the Coast of British Columbia

Publications

More than a century of oceanic hydrography observations reveals profound climate-related changes in the Northwest Atlantic and Eastern Arctic (in review)

Coyne, J., Cyr, F., Atchison, S., Bishop, C., Donnet, S., Galbraith, P. S., Geoffroy, M., Hebert, D., Layton, C., Ratsimandresy, A., del Rio Iglesias, J.-L., Shaw, J.-L., Snook, S., Soontiens, N., Tel, E., and Walkusz, W.: More than a century of oceanic hydrography observations reveals profound climate-related changes in the Northwest Atlantic and Eastern Arctic, Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss. [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2025-611, in review, 2025.

An Analysis of the 2023 Marine Heat Waves on the Newfoundland and Labrador Shelf

Soontiens, N., Andres, H. J., Coyne, J., Cyr, F., Galbraith, P. S., and Penney, J. 2025. An analysis of the 2023 summer and fall marine heat waves on the Newfoundland and Labrador Shelf. State of the Planet. 6-osr9 : 12 p. 10.5194/sp-6-osr9-12-2025

Statistical Modes and Physical Drivers of Multidecadal Sea Surface Temperature Variability in the Northwest Atlantic

Jonathan Coyne & Eric Oliver (2025). Statistical Modes and Physical Drivers of Multidecadal Sea Surface Temperature Variability in the Northwest Atlantic. Atmosphere-Ocean, 63(4), 278–298. https://doi.org/10.1080/07055900.2025.2530439

Oceanographic conditions in the Atlantic zone in 2024

Galbraith, P.S., Lizotte, M., Blais, M., Bélanger, D., Casault, B., Coyne, J., Layton, C., Azetsu-Scott, K., Beazley, L., Chassé, J., Clay, S., Cyr, F., Devred, E., Fudge, A., Gabriel, C.-E., Greenan, B., Hébert, A.-J., Johnson, C.L., Maillet, G., Penney, J., Rastin, S., Ringuette, M., Shaw, J.-L., Snook, S., Starr, M. 2025. Oceanographic conditions in the Atlantic zone in 2024. Can. Tech. Rep. Hydrogr. Ocean. Sci. 400 : viii + 49 p. https://doi.org/10.60825/e92v-d229

Physical Oceanographic Conditions on the Newfoundland and Labrador Shelf during 2024

Coyne, J., Cyr, F., Snook, S., Bishop, C., Galbraith, P.S., Shaw, J.-L., Chen, N., and Han, G. 2025. Physical Oceanographic Conditions on the Newfoundland and Labrador Shelf during 2024. Can. Tech. Rep. Hydrogr. Ocean Sci. 401: iv + 61 p. https://doi.org/10.60825/1d14-x857

Physical Oceanographic Conditions on the Newfoundland and Labrador Shelf during 2023

Cyr, F., Coyne, J., Snook, S., Bishop, C., Galbraith, P.S., Chen, N., Han, G. 2024. Physical Oceanographic Conditions on the Newfoundland and Labrador Shelf during 2023. Can. Tech. Rep. Hydrogr. Ocean Sci. 382: iv + 54 p.

Physical Oceanographic Conditions on the Newfoundland and Labrador Shelf during 2022

Cyr, F., Coyne, J., Snook, S., Bishop, C., Galbraith, P.S., Chen, N., Han, G. 2024. Physical Oceanographic Conditions on the Newfoundland and Labrador Shelf during 2022. Can. Tech. Rep. Hydrogr. Ocean Sci. 377: iv + 53 p.

Environmental and Physical Oceanographic Conditions on the Eastern Canadian shelves (NAFO Sub-areas 2, 3 and 4) during 2023

Cyr, F., J. Coyne, P.S. Galbraith, C. Layton and D. Hebert, 2024. Environmental and Physical Oceanographic Conditions on the Eastern Canadian shelves (NAFO Sub-areas 2, 3 and 4) during 2023. NAFO Scientific Council Meeting Scientific Council Report, SCR Doc 24/010, Serial No. N7513.

Oceanographic conditions in the Atlantic zone in 2023

Galbraith, P.S., Blais, M., Lizotte, M., Cyr, F., Bélanger, D., Casault, B., Clay, S., Layton, C., Starr, M., Chassé, J., Azetsu-Scott, K., Coyne, J., Devred, E., Gabriel, C.-E., Johnson, C.L., Maillet, G., Pepin, P., Plourde, S., Ringuette, M., Shaw, J.-L. 2024. Oceanographic conditions in the Atlantic zone in 2023. Can. Tech. Rep. Hydrogr. Ocean Sci. 379: v + 38 p.

Long-term ocean and resource dynamics in a hotspot of climate change

Heike K. Lotze, Stefanie Mellon, Jonathan Coyne, Matthew Betts, Meghan Burchell, Katja Fennel, Marisa A. Dusseault, Susanna D. Fuller, Eric Galbraith, Lina Garcia Suarez, Laura de Gelleke, Nina Golombek, Brianne Kelly, Sarah D. Kuehn, Eric Oliver, Megan MacKinnon, Wendy Muraoka, Ian T.G. Predham, Krysten Rutherford, Nancy Shackell, Owen Sherwood, Elizabeth C. Sibert, and Markus Kienast. 2022. Long-term ocean and resource dynamics in a hotspot of climate change. FACETS. 7: 1142-1184. https://doi.org/10.1139/facets-2021-0197

Data Products

Canadian Atlantic Bottom Observations Temperature-Salinity (CABOTS)

Coyne, J., Cyr, F. (2025). Canadian Atlantic Bottom Observations Temperature-Salinity (CABOTS). Federated Research Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.20383/103.0969

Canadian Atlantic Shelf Temperature-Salinity (CASTS)

Coyne, J., Cyr, F., Donnet, S., Galbraith, P., Geoffroy, M., Hebert, D., Layton, C., Ratsimandresy, A., Snook, S., Soontiens, N., Walkusz, W. (2023). Canadian Atlantic Shelf Temperature-Salinity (CASTS). Federated Research Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.20383/103.01191