Katriona Shea

Professor of Biology; Alumni Professor in the Biological Sciences

Katriona Shea

Research Summary

The use of ecological theory in population management.

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Uncertainty Learning Disease Outbreaks Farms Invasive Species Epidemics Epidemiology Decision Making Population Growth History Electric Current Control Pollinator Adaptive Management Phenology Carduus Nutans Foot And Mouth Disease Flowers Seeds Population Communicable Diseases Seed Vaccination Resource Plant Species Life Cycle (Organisms)

Most Recent Papers

Modeling of Future COVID-19 Cases, Hospitalizations, and Deaths, by Vaccination Rates and Nonpharmaceutical Intervention Scenarios - United States, April-September 2021

Rebecca K. Borchering, Cécile Viboud, Emily Howerton, Claire P. Smith, Shaun Truelove, Michael C. Runge, Nicholas G. Reich, Lucie Contamin, John Levander, Jessica Salerno, Wilbert van Panhuis, Matt Kinsey, Kate Tallaksen, R. Freddy Obrecht, Laura Asher, Cash Costello, Michael Kelbaugh, Shelby Wilson, Lauren Shin, Molly E. Gallagher, Luke C. Mullany, Kaitlin Rainwater-Lovett, Joseph C. Lemaitre, Juan Dent, Kyra H. Grantz, Joshua Kaminsky, Stephen A. Lauer, Elizabeth C. Lee, Hannah R. Meredith, Javier Perez-Saez, Lindsay T. Keegan, Dean Karlen, Matteo Chinazzi, Jessica T. Davis, Kunpeng Mu, Xinyue Xiong, Ana Pastore Y Piontti, Alessandro Vespignani, Ajitesh Srivastava, Przemyslaw Porebski, Srinivasan Venkatramanan, Aniruddha Adiga, Bryan Lewis, Brian Klahn, Joseph Outten, James Schlitt, Patrick Corbett, Pyrros Alexander Telionis, Lijing Wang, Akhil Sai Peddireddy, Benjamin Hurt, Jiangzhuo Chen, Anil Vullikanti, Madhav Marathe, Jessica M. Healy, Rachel B. Slayton, Matthew Biggerstaff, Michael A. Johansson, Katriona Shea, Justin Lessler, 2021, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on p. 719-724

How disturbance history alters invasion success

Adam D. Miller, Hidetoshi Inamine, Angus Buckling, Stephen H. Roxburgh, Katriona Shea, 2021, Ecology Letters on p. 687-697

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Ottar N. Bjørnstad, Katriona Shea, Martin Krzywinski, Naomi Altman, 2021, Nature Methods on p. 321

Causes of delayed outbreak responses and their impacts on epidemic spread

Yun Tao, William J.M. Probert, Katriona Shea, Michael C. Runge, Kevin Lafferty, Michael Tildesley, Matthew Ferrari, 2021, Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Warming and shifting phenology accelerate an invasive plant life cycle

Joseph A. Keller, Katriona Shea, 2021, Ecology

Oviposition response of the biocontrol agent Rhinocyllus conicus to resource distribution in its invasive host, Carduus nutans

Zeynep Sezen, Ottar N. Bjørnstad, Katriona Shea, 2021, Biological Control

Analyzing How Changes in the Health Status of Healthcare Workers Affects Epidemic Outcomes

I. Phadke, A. McKee, J. M. Conway, K. Shea, 2021, Journal of Hygiene on p. 1-27

Anticipating future learning affects current control decisions: a comparison between passive and active adaptive management in an epidemiological setting

Benjamin D. Atkins, Chris P. Jewell, Michael C. Runge, Matthew J. Ferrari, Katriona Shea, William J.M. Probert, Michael J. Tildesley, 2020, Journal of Theoretical Biology

Warming and shifting phenology accelerate an invasive plant life cycle

Joseph Keller, Katriona Shea, 2020, Ecology

Uncertainty and the management of epidemics

Katriona Shea, Ottar N. Bjørnstad, Martin Krzywinski, Naomi Altman, 2020, Nature Methods on p. 867-868

Most-Cited Papers

How frequency and intensity shape diversity-disturbance relationships

Adam D. Miller, Stephen H. Roxburgh, Katriona Shea, 2011, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 5643-5648

Supporting crop pollinators with floral resources

Laura Russo, Nelson Debarros, Suann Yang, Katriona Shea, David Mortensen, 2013, Ecology and Evolution on p. 3125-3140

A network model for plant-pollinator community assembly

Colin Campbell, Suann Yang, Reka Z. Albert, Katriona Shea, 2011, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 197-202

Adaptive Management and the Value of Information

Katriona Shea, Michael J. Tildesley, Michael C. Runge, Christopher J. Fonnesbeck, Matthew Joseph Ferrari, 2014, PLoS Biology on p. e1001970

Embracing uncertainty in applied ecology

E. J. Milner-Gulland, Katriona Shea, 2017, Journal of Applied Ecology on p. 2063-2068

Pollinator behavior mediates negative interactions between two congeneric invasive plant species

Suann Yang, Matthew J. Ferrari, Katriona Shea, 2011, American Naturalist on p. 110-118

Diversity-disturbance relationships

Alex R. Hall, Adam D. Miller, Helen C. Leggett, Stephen H. Roxburgh, Angus Buckling, Katriona Shea, 2012, Biology Letters on p. 768-771

Importance of individual and environmental variation for invasive species spread

Eelke Jongejans, Katriona Shea, Olav Skarpaas, Dave Kelly, Stephen P. Ellner, 2011, Ecology on p. 86-97

Decision-making for foot-and-mouth disease control: Objectives matter

William J.M. Probert, Katriona Shea, Christopher J. Fonnesbeck, Michael C. Runge, Tim E. Carpenter, Salome Dürr, M. Graeme Garner, Neil Harvey, Mark A. Stevenson, Colleen T. Webb, Marleen Werkman, Michael J. Tildesley, Matthew J. Ferrari, 2016, Epidemics on p. 10-19

Are the best dispersers the best colonizers? Seed mass, dispersal and establishment in Carduus thistles

Olav Skarpaas, Edward J. Silverman, Eelke Jongejans, Katriona Shea, 2011, Evolutionary Ecology on p. 155-169

News Articles Featuring Katriona Shea

May 25, 2021

COVID-19 model consensus: Quiet summer, uncertain fall

Ongoing project looks at effects of vax hesitancy, controls on pandemic

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May 05, 2021

CDC says coronavirus could be under control this summer in U.S. if people get vaccinated and are careful

Coronavirus infections could be driven to low levels and the pandemic at least temporarily throttled in the United States by July if the vast majority of people get vaccinated and continue with precautions against viral transmission, according to a strikingly optimistic paper released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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May 05, 2021

Models project COVID-19 cases may spike in May, before sharply declining by July

With lower use of public health measures, such as mask wearing, COVID-19 cases are projected to increase and peak during May 2021, but high vaccination uptake and moderate compliance with public health recommendations could mitigate surges in hospitalizations and deaths in the coming months, according to new model projections.

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Feb 25, 2021

Mortality rises among public when health workers get sick in an outbreak

When healthcare workers become ill during a disease outbreak, overall case counts and mortality rates may significantly increase, according to a new model created by researchers at Penn State. The findings may help to improve interventions that aim to mitigate the effects of outbreaks such as COVID-19.

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May 07, 2020

Which COVID-19 models should we use to make policy decisions?

With so many COVID-19 models being developed, how do policymakers know which ones to use? A new process to harness multiple disease models for outbreak management has been developed by an international team of researchers.

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Apr 11, 2020

'The reason we do this is to save lives’: An inside look at coronavirus research efforts at Penn State

As cases of the coronavirus began spreading globally and increasing in numbers, scientists have been racing to the forefront to attempt to understand and combat the virus.

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Mar 23, 2020

Penn State funds first round of COVID-19 research proposals

One week after launching a rapid-fire call for proposals, awards are granted to six projects that address the global pandemic, with more to follow

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May 02, 2019

Alumna Laura Russo receives Robert May Prize from the British Ecological Society

PSU alumna Laura Russo has been selected to receive the Robert May Prize from the British Ecological Society, the oldest ecological society in the world. The prize recognizes the best paper by an early career researcher in the society’s scientific journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution.

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Apr 02, 2019

Shea recognized with 2019 Palmer Faculty Mentoring Award

Katriona Shea, alumni professor of biology in the Eberly College of Science, is the recipient of Penn State's 2019 Howard B. Palmer Faculty Mentoring Award. The award honors and recognizes outstanding achievement by a faculty member with at least five years of service who effectively guides junior faculty.

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