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ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Worldwide, from 1980 to 2018, the amount of damage caused by natural disasters amounted to about 40 trillion. Such climate-related disasters can be minimized if they are known in advance, bu…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is an ocean circulation system that plays a crucial role in regulating the global climate and its response to anthropogenic forcing. Th…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The problem addressed was does per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) affect the amount of Chlorophyll in lettuce. If 15mLof PFAS is added to plant, the plant will have a lower percent a…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Macroinvertebrates have been extensively utilized to evaluate the water quality of aquatic ecosystems (Urakawa and Bernhard, 2017; Singh and Sharma, 2020). Caddy flies (Trichoptera) are poll…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Many places lack clean water and the chemicals needed to treat water are not easily accessible either. Moringa plants tend to grow near the equator where most countries lack water. Moringa p…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This project investigates regions of the U.S. and Canada affected by the Polar Vortex and impacts of “stuck” or persistent extreme weather patterns such as: longer rainstorms, longer heat wa…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, are photosynthetic aquatic organisms that produce toxins. They can grow excessively to form large-scale blooms under favorable environmental conditions. T…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
In 2020, more than 250,000 Vietnam households were inundated, and over 70% of the population is exposed to risks from flood-related hazards. While Southeast Asia has experienced an unprecede…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The amount of land burned every year in Washington has increased about ten times over the last half century making the need for improved detection and identification of trends linked to wild…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Rapid Intensification (RI), a 30+ kt increase in a storm’s 1-minute maximum sustained winds, is a potentially catastrophic event occurring within tropical cyclones. The leading current RI mo…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Pisaster ochraceus is an integral component of rocky intertidal ecosystems. As a keystone species (Gashler, 2014), it has the ability to completely transform environments, controlling mussel…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Soybean is a major crop grown in Arkansas. Studying plant development is important to inform management decisions such as irrigation or chemical applications to maximize yield. The chlorophy…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences First Award
The Dana Glacier, located in the Sierra Nevada mountains, is rapidly melting away. I wanted to measure the volume of the remaining ice. This is difficult as there is no way to directly obser…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
There is a growing concern within the meteorological community regarding how the world should be handling the forecasting of tropical cyclones. Rapid intensification is happening more and mo…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In last year's study, open-cell lignin foams were prepared from Kraft lignin through a simple baking process. Lignin foams demonstrated good biosorbent capabilities for removing heavy metals…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The importance of swimming in our life is evident; it reduces the rate of heart attack incidences and accordingly extends a person’s expected lifetime. Besides the health benefits. On the ot…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Access to clean water is a major challenge in many developing counties partly due to municipal and industrial pollution. Thus, developing low-cost technologies to provide clean water is vita…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The Mississippi River carries an estimated 1.5 million metric tons of nitrogen pollution into the Gulf of Mexico every year. This pollution has turned more than 18,000 square miles of the Gu…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This project investigates porous concrete as a potential mitigation tactic for the surface runoff of tire wear particles (TWP). To maintain grip on the road, a tire gradually wears down its…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Observations indicate that offset inner-eyewall of the double eyewall typhoons would rotate counterclockwise inside the outer eyewalls. The rotation results in a trochoidal track when the ty…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
If passed, a recent proposal by the EPA will take away the Clean Water Act’s protection of intermittent headwater streams which make up around 9 million of America’s stream miles. Due to the…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Microplastics have become ubiquitous in marine ecosystems. Toxic chemicals can leach from microplastics posing significant health risks to marine life. Removal of microplastics is difficult…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
The world's soils are losing their ability to naturally support crops, and many are approaching exhaustion. Erosion, soil structure degradation, nutrient loss, and soil microorganism populat…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
The rapid growth in urbanization over the past few years has caused the Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomenon- an occurrence where the temperature of an urban area is significantly greater than…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Trees, especially older and mature trees, provide communities with numerous environmental benefits. These environmental benefits lead to improved community health and reduced spending. This…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Traditional process of sweet potato, a popular raw material used for food production, generates a large amount of protein-rich wastewater which is hard to treat and causes water pollution an…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Coral reef cover has declined due to climate and anthropogenic stressors. While climate stressors have a larger impact, anthropogenic stressors have a more direct impact and can be controlle…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Approximately 2.2 billion people lack access to safely managed water supplies. Biological contaminants and heavy metals pose considerable threats to humanity, but are often expensive to dete…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
To reduce styrofoam pollution, Tenebrio beetles and their larvae, mealworms, are very effective. They can digest and biodegrade polystyrene plastic, or styrofoam, into released carbon dioxid…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Desertification is supposed to be one of the main global problems. There are lots of sandy wastelands in Krasnoye settlement and in its surroundings. Recovery of vegetation and saving its di…