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ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences First Award
Sedimentary rock layers found in eastern Pennsylvania, including Berks County, are known to have uranium deposits. Radon-222 is a naturally occurring radioactive gas that is a daughter eleme…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Floods kills 6,000 people annually and is especially dangerous for the region of Southeast Asia, where 1.24 billion people are at risk of flooding. Flood mapping often uses ground measures,…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Yield forecasting is critical for ensuring food security, especially given the rise of extreme weather events. However, the USDA NASS only provides state-level forecasts by conducting costly…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Aleš Janderka Gymnasium Masaryk Square 8, Šumperk, Czech Republic The thesis focuses on Cretaceous macrofossil, microfossil, and ichnofossil specimens from the Štíty Graben. The research cov…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
As the energy demand is increasing every day, the environmental pollution has been a main concern. To reduce environmental pollution while satisfying the energy demand, we can start using re…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
The rapid intensification (RI) of tropical cyclones (TCs) is one of the greatest challenges for forecasters. Improving the skill for RI forecasts has been a top priority of the National Hurr…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Annually, skin cancers make up a high proportion of preventable deaths. By applying sunscreen, the risks of developing skin cancers decrease considerably. However, sunscreens significantly c…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
A newly invasive tick species, native to East Asia, has recently established itself in 17 U.S. states: Haemaphysalis longicornis, the Asian Longhorned tick. This invasion is of great concern…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Starting with reports of illness after swimming in the lake in 2022, the Fallon County Commission decided to test the lake for toxic algae. The lake tests came back positive for a toxic alga…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Current research shows Northern Guam to be composed of porous limestone bedrock which allow groundwater to flow out. One large discharge point has already been identified last year in north-…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Amorphous materials have been shown to constitute a significant fraction of Martian soils and rocks, according to previous lander-based X-Ray Diffraction and orbital Infrared (IR) measuremen…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Although mangroves occupy less than 1% of the global coastal area, they are one of the strongest natural ecosystems to fight climate change as they sequester up to 22.8 tons of carbon annual…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Conventional agricultural practices have caused the world’s soils to release 133 billion tonnes of carbon to the atmosphere and are one of the major contributors to global greenhouse gas emi…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences First Award
The Arctic is warming three times faster than the rest of the world, causing decreased sea ice and permafrost, changing ecosystems, and threatening the livelihoods of indigenous people. In t…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Previous research suggests that abiotic factors facilitate the degradation of artificial polymers, such as polyethylene, into microplastics. However, current research has not yet explored ho…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Cyanobacteria blooms in rivers have grown in intensity due to climate change and water pollution. During these blooms, microcystis, a type of cyanobacteria, releases toxins called microcysti…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In recent years the Indian River Lagoon has suffered from increasingly high accumulation of muck, which settles along the bottom of the estuary. The addition of artificial inlets has been pr…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
With the impacts of climate change intensifying, sea level is expected to rise 0.25–0.30 meters by 2050. With a one-degree Celsius rise in temperature, precipitation globally is expected to…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Submarine canyons are geomorphic features that incise into continental margins. They are characterized by complex hydrodynamic processes, heterogeneous spatial variations, and steep topograp…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Harmful algae blooms plague aquatic ecosystems around the world. They impact water quality and ecosystem diversity, cause dead zones, cost the fishing and tourism industries millions of doll…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Wildfires pose severe health and ecological consequences. In 2021 alone, 58,968 wildfires burned 7.1 million acres across the United States. Large wildfires (> 300 acres) in the United State…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Purpose: This research explored if soil saturation contributes to the formation of sinkholes. This research also investigated if Khutsong households are at risks of new sinkholes. Method: Th…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This project demonstrates how carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is contributing to ocean acidification and coral bleaching. Through the course of a 4 year continuation on this project, this y…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Coal ash is produced from burning coal and has accumulated for years in piles and landfill pits. Coal ash contains toxins like lead, arsenic, lithium, selenium and cadmium (Gopinathan, et al…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This work presents the first study that examines the runoff of the herbicide, paraquat, and how it flows through the environment. Paraquat is a highly toxic herbicide that is widely used and…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Accurate weather predictions are crucial to infrastructure, economic security, and disaster prevention. Short-range hourly temperature forecasting has been the purview of statistical numeric…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Our project brings out a a safer, invulnerable, modern system that prevents water from freezing when temperature decreases and can later on be safely consumed by the human body. As to how we…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In this project, due to the fact that cultivation in a cultivator consumed a lot of energy, it was proposed that natural growth in the form of moor renaturation would be more efficient. Conv…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Limu (seaweed) is critical to Native Hawaiian ecosystems and culture. With limited prior research, the first part of this study examined the effects of ZnO mineral sunscreens on endemic Hawa…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations of both carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) are increasing at a decennial rate of +34 parts per million for CO2 and +70 parts per billion for CH4…