Meghan Marjorie Shea

All Publications

• Environmental DNA metabarcoding differentiates between micro-habitats within the rocky intertidal ENVIRONMENTAL DNA Shea, M. M., Boehm, A. B. 2024; 6 (2)

  View details for DOI 10.1002/edn3.521

  View details for Web of Science ID 001307393100010

• Systematic review of marine environmental DNA metabarcoding studies: toward best practices for data usability and accessibility. PeerJ Shea, M. M., Kuppermann, J., Rogers, M. P., Smith, D. S., Edwards, P., Boehm, A. B. 2023; 11: e14993

  Abstract

  The emerging field of environmental DNA (eDNA) research lacks universal guidelines for ensuring data produced are FAIR-findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable-despite growing awareness of the importance of such practices. In order to better understand these data usability challenges, we systematically reviewed 60 peer reviewed articles conducting a specific subset of eDNA research: metabarcoding studies in marine environments. For each article, we characterized approximately 90 features across several categories: general article attributes and topics, methodological choices, types of metadata included, and availability and storage of sequence data. Analyzing these characteristics, we identified several barriers to data accessibility, including a lack of common context and vocabulary across the articles, missing metadata, supplementary information limitations, and a concentration of both sample collection and analysis in the United States. While some of these barriers require significant effort to address, we also found many instances where small choices made by authors and journals could have an outsized influence on the discoverability and reusability of data. Promisingly, articles also showed consistency and creativity in data storage choices as well as a strong trend toward open access publishing. Our analysis underscores the need to think critically about data accessibility and usability as marine eDNA metabarcoding studies, and eDNA projects more broadly, continue to proliferate.

  View details for DOI 10.7717/peerj.14993

  View details for PubMedID 36992947

  View details for PubMedCentralID PMC10042160

• Animal Agriculture and Climate Change in the US and UK Elite Media: Volume, Responsibilities, Causes and Solutions. Environmental communication Kristiansen, S., Painter, J., Shea, M. 2021; 15 (2): 153-172

  Abstract

  Animal agriculture is a major producer of greenhouse gas emissions, equivalent to 14.5% of global emissions, which is approximately the same size as the transportation sector. Global meat consumption is projected to grow, which will increase animal agriculture's negative impact on the environment. Public awareness of the link between animal food consumption and climate change is low; this may be one of many obstacles to more effective interventions to reduce meat consumption in Western diets, which has been proposed by many research institutions. This study analyzes how much attention the UK and US elite media paid to animal agriculture's role in climate change, and the roles and responsibilities of various parties in addressing the problem, from 2006 to 2018. The results of the quantitative media content analysis show that during that period, volume of coverage remained low, and that when the issue was covered, consumer responsibility was mentioned more than that of governments or largescale livestock farms. In similar fashion, a range of options around personal dietary change was far more prominent in the media discussion of solutions than government policies, reforming agricultural practices or holding major animal food companies accountable for their emissions.

  View details for DOI 10.1080/17524032.2020.1805344

  View details for PubMedID 33688373

  View details for PubMedCentralID PMC7929601

• Power, the Pacific Islands, and the Prestige Press: A Case Study of How Climate Reporting is Influenced by UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Summits INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRESS-POLITICS Shea, M. M., Painter, J., Osaka, S. 2021

  View details for DOI 10.1177/19401612211018067

  View details for Web of Science ID 000652311800001

• Representations of Pacific Islands and climate change in US, UK, and Australian newspaper reporting CLIMATIC CHANGE Shea, M. M., Painter, J., Osaka, S. 2020

  View details for DOI 10.1007/s10584-020-02674-w

  View details for Web of Science ID 000520077200001

• Tracing country commitment to Indigenous peoples in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS Shea, M. M., Thornton, T. F. 2019; 58

  View details for DOI 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.101973

  View details for Web of Science ID 000495473400019

• Adaptation and Resilience at the Margins: Addressing Indigenous Peoples' Marginalization at International Climate Negotiations ENVIRONMENT Comberti, C., Thornton, T. F., Korodimou, M., Shea, M., Riamit, K. 2019; 61 (2): 14–30

  View details for DOI 10.1080/00139157.2019.1564213

  View details for Web of Science ID 000458554100003

• Occurrence of Host-Associated Fecal Markers on Child Hands, Household Soil, and Drinking Water in Rural Bangladeshi Households ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LETTERS Boehm, A. B., Wang, D., Ercumen, A., Shea, M., Harris, A. R., Shanks, O. C., Kelty, C., Ahmed, A., Mahmud, Z. H., Arnold, B. F., Chase, C., Kullmann, C., Colford, J. M., Luby, S. P., Pickering, A. J. 2016; 3 (11): 393-398

  View details for DOI 10.1021/acs.estlett.6b00382

  View details for Web of Science ID 000387528200003