Browse 74 real Earth and Environmental Sciences projects from AJAS, with abstracts, awards and links to the original entries.
AJAS · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
Eelgrass, or Zostera marina, is a species of submerged aquatic vegetation that grows in shallow bays and estuaries. Ocean acidification is the gradual increase in the acidity of seawater cau…
AJAS · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
By 2025, the Food and Agriculture Organization says around 1.8 billion people will face severe water scarcity (FAO). In Nebraska, while we rely on groundwater, we should make sure our water…
AJAS · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
Ozone is a key protective layer of the atmosphere. However, when it reaches ground level, it can be detrimental to human health and has been associated with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Dis…
AJAS · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
Climate change has significantly increased global wildfire frequency and impact, making it a critical humanitarian crisis, particularly in dry climates. To address this challenge, we propose…
AJAS · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
A flash flood is when an area floods due to sudden extreme rainfall or another natural condition. Because of their destructive power, many families lose their homes yearly due to flash flood…
AJAS · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
As sea levels rise and increase the rates of shoreline recession around coastal communities, developing strategies to mitigate this erosion should involve an examination of near-shore bathym…
AJAS · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
Droughts kill over 45,000 people yearly and affect the livelihoods of 55 million others, with climate change likely to worsen these effects. Despite this, researchers have struggled to dev…
AJAS · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
In spring 2015, the U.S. Pacific Coast experienced an unprecedented spike in domoic acid concentrations, surpassing federal safety limits by over 700% in parts of Washington State and trigge…
AJAS · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
As a major source of sea-level rise, iceberg melting increases freshwater input and can also cause regional water imbalances, scarcity, and natural disasters. In this paper, we use a more ac…
AJAS · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
Water shortages are a global issue, now impacting North America, where cyanobacterial HABs pose the greatest threat to inland water quality. Each year the US alone incurs over $50 million in…
AJAS · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
Urban air pollution, particularly fine particulate matter (PM2.5), poses a significant public health risk globally. Current methods of assessing air quality lack comprehensive integration of…
AJAS · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
This study investigated the predictability of microplastic exposure in Daphnia magna through a machine learning-based approach based on gene expression levels. The research's methodology inv…
AJAS · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
Increasing carbon emissions is resulting in global warming, melting of polar ice, and slowing of ocean currents, putting sharks at risk. Sharks are a keystone species that serve as an indica…
AJAS · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
Due to their unpredictable nature and large area that they cover, much energy has been put into developing the knowledge of karst landscapes and the vulnerable aquifer systems they contain.…
AJAS · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
Rationale: Environmental pollution from industrial emissions can have a large effect on precipitation quality. In exploring this further, I wanted to answer the question about whether precip…
AJAS · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
Global warming is rapidly melting glaciers, causing sea levels to rise and shorelines to encroach on communities and animal habitats. This results in coastal erosion, increased storm surges,…
AJAS · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
The industrialization of our society has caused a number of problems for the natural environment. One of these problems is light pollution, which comes from excess and unwanted light from ar…
AJAS · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
Polyethylene (PE) and polystyrene (PS) are the most commonly used plastics in industrial and consumer products, but few natural organisms can break down the substances. As a result, it takes…
AJAS · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
With the Coronavirus pandemic, the use of disinfectants has become more commonplace. These various chemicals, specifically quaternary ammonium compounds, often get washed down the drain and…
AJAS · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
Due to global warming, glaciers have been melting at an accelerated rate, causing coastlines to encroach further inland. As a result, the danger that tsunamis pose to wildlife and the built…
AJAS · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
Conventional agricultural practices (like tillage and synthetic fertilizer use) have caused the world's soils to release billions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere and significantly cont…
AJAS · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
The experiment’s objective was to find the efficiency of oil dispersants on photo-oxidized oil compared to fresh oil. Oil spills need to be cleaned up effectively to mitigate their detriment…
AJAS · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
Tornadogensis is the process by which a tornado forms. The study was conducted to determine the occurrence of tonadogensis by analyzing various severe weather parameters. The occurrence of t…
AJAS · 2022
Environmental Science
The world runs on oil. While notable oil spills involving tankers catch the eye of the public, oil spillage caused by other anthropogenic activities such as consumer use often goes unnoticed…
AJAS · 2022
Environmental Science
The Connecticut River, stretching from the Canadian border with New Hampshire to the Long Island Sound, is of great ecological and commercial importance to bordering communities. A variety o…
AJAS · 2022
Environmental Science
In the United States, agriculture operations are having significant impacts on the water quality of nearby waterways. In Peacham, Vermont, the South Peacham Brook is a small stream, which fl…
AJAS · 2022
Environmental Science
Description: I made a cheap arsenic water filtration system that helps the immune system by reducing cell death.
AJAS · 2022
Earth Science
Eyewall replacement cycles (ERCs) are events that occur in intense tropical cyclones (TCs) and are difficult to predict. An ERC event involves a secondary outer eyewall that surrounds the in…
AJAS · 2022
Environmental Science
North Carolina is the second largest hog producer in the US, and the state has historically faced issues with contaminants from hog waste lagoons, which are worsened by flooding events that…
AJAS · 2022
Environmental Science
Microplastics are the most prevalent type of artificial debris in most waterways. There is little knowledge about the effect microplastics have on organisms. This project evaluated the effec…