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For applied research, this is perhaps the most important step in the entire research process. You can share results through two basic avenues and for two different audiences: laypeople and members of the scientific community. If you are interested in sharing your findings with laypeople, you should package the results in a manner that is easily understood without a lot of scientific jargon.

We have found that producing a report that discusses the methods and highlights the main findings of a study to be most effective. You might also consider developing a visual presentation, which could be given in a variety of settings that highlight both your research methods and your main findings. If you plan to share your results with members of the scientific community, you will most likely want to write a paper for submission to a scientific journal and possibly also present your results at a professional conference.

GIS can be very useful in sharing your results because it allows for presenting data in a visual format. Most commonly, the visual output is a map, but GIS can also provide output as charts or graphs or, if done as an interactive presentation, as animated or interactive maps. Not surprisingly, any of these visualizations can have wide-ranging applicability in a variety of contexts—“a picture is worth a thousand words.”