This talk will focus on four main aspects that could help ensure your research is applied in regulatory decisions: 1. Understand how your research can connect to the regulatory decision - identify the relevant laws and lead federal/state agencies. 2. Understand how risk-based regulatory decisions are made - design your experiments/research in a manner that is useful to the agency’s risk assessment process. 3. Through collaborations, look at the “big picture” and explore your research’s potential impact beyond your immediate area of expertise. 4. Describe your methods in detail and making your raw data accessible to all (take full advantage of journal supplemental file options as well as public data repositories). The author shall describe these aspects in detail using her research project on monarch butterfly conservation as an example.
