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ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
Animal behavioral research often grapples with identifying subtle movement patterns, integrating multiple behavioral metrics, and mitigating observer bias. My project presents a novel, acces…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
Most species of newts in the genus Cynops live in southern China, while two species in Japan. One Japanese species is the Japanese fire-bellied newt (Cynops pyrrhogaster), which is the north…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
Freshwater mussels of the order Unionoida is a spawning ground for bitterlings and are therefore an important species in freshwater ecosystems. However, they face global extinction threat du…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
Bumblebees are social insects: one queen and many worker bees live in the nest. In the Japanese bumblebee Bombus ignitus, the queen lays fertilized diploid eggs that develop into female work…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
Purpose Dog barks and visual cues are main channels through which dogs communicate their emotional states, such as anger, sadness, and excitement. However, accurately interpreting these is a…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
Damage to DNA can have serious health repercussions, like cancer and neurodegenerative disorders. However, antioxidants like ascorbic acid (also known as vitamin C) have shown to have positi…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
This study investigates the potential effects of hunting on the length of bison (Bison bison) bellows, a guttural vocalization which is essential to male-male competition and therefore femal…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
Among the partying set of high school students, both alcohol and energy drinks are popular. However, this is a dangerous practice. It would be interesting to know how heart rate is affected…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
Early-onset colorectal cancer (EOCRC) in patients under 50 now accounts for 10% of new diagnoses. While unexplained, trends in EOCRC may be related to diet, which is associated with 29% of a…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
The introduction of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) to habitats of the North American river otter has had a profound impact. Exposure to dangerously high levels of these EDCs has led t…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
Grain-Free foods are becoming an issue in veterinary science today (Bentley, personal communication, Sep. 6, 2024). Grain-free dog foods have been known to cause conditions such as hyperthyr…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
The presence of microplastics in the human body has been recently discovered, but little is known about whether they can cause harm to bodily systems. This experiment uses C. Elegans as a ba…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
This study was performed to increase awareness of the potential risks of high levels of nitrates. My goal was to determine how sodium nitrate affects the model organism Caenorhabditis elegan…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
This project sets out to test the effect that light intensity has on the growth of mealworms. By letting the meal worms grow in 3 different magnitude of lumens and one group in the dark, the…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
Traditional nesting boxes fail to replicate the stable microclimate of natural tree hollows crucial for mature tree species, due to offset designs causing large temperature fluctuations, lea…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
This project tracked intestinal parasites in stray feline populations on Oahu to assess severity of the presence of parasites in the environment with posed zoonotic risks. Using fecal flotat…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
Non-native species pose a global threat to aquatic ecosystems, with the potential to spread rapidly, reduce biodiversity, and induce ecological changes. The globally distributed Australian t…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
Artificial lighting significantly reduces insect populations, contributing to their mass extinction alongside habitat loss, pollution, invasions, and climate change. This project aims to dev…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
Fall armyworms damage over 80 host plants, especially maize, and cause annual crop losses of around $9.4 billion. With the global population projected to reach 9 billion people by 2050, the…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
Ants – with their ability to assist in seed dispersal and scavenging – are an often overlooked foundational part of our ecosystems. In fact, according to the Journal of Animal Ecology, ants…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
Birds generate calls and songs with distinct frequency patterns. Spectrograms have long been used to visualize those sound patterns by mapping changes in pitch and amplitude over time. While…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
Anti-apoptotic B-cell leukemia/lymphoma (Bcl-2) family proteins are reported to be overexpressed in around half of all human cancers, linked to tumorigenesis, chemotherapy resistance, and po…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
Chronic wasting disease(CWD) is a contagious, fatal prion disease found in cervids, specifically whitetail and mule deer, resulting in their decline. Data (sex, species, CWD status, and harv…