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ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Dendrochronology is a scientific field that uses the annual growth rings on trees to help scientists date events and map environmental change. Understanding past climate helps us to explain…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Climate change is a global problem that has adversely impacted marine ecosystems, especially coral reefs, by causing their bleaching and their destruction. The purpose of this study was to d…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Arsenic, a WHO-classified carcinogen and neurotoxin, has gained widespread notoriety, potentially affecting 250+ million globally. Current arsenic detection methods require frequent sampling…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Coliforms are ubiquitous and are known to be opportunistic pathogens such as Escherichia coli (E. coli). Large amounts of these coliforms in water supplies are harmful and it is important to…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
For decades, coastal erosion has progressed without effective remediation; the process inhibits coastal populations, animals, and habitats in tandem to negatively impacting local economies.…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Seventy percent of our planet is covered with water; however, only three percent is fresh and drinkable. The purpose of this project is to determine which type of aquatic plants filters wate…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Abstract The improper disposal of plastic waste has led to an abundance of plastics in the oceans, introducing a wide range of toxins along with a potential global health crisis. However, th…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This project presents a novel end-to-end solution for predicting, mapping, and mitigating the absorption of hazardous organic pollutants by the plant cuticle membrane. The plant cuticle is v…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Ingesting marine biotoxins such as domoic acid (DA), a neurotoxin produced by the diatom Pseudo-nitzschia spp., and paralytic shellfish poison (PSP), a neurotoxic byproduct of the saxitoxin-…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Perfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) are carcinogenic chemicals found in heat, stain, and water-resistant consumer products, including Teflon. Like pharmaceuticals (PPCPs), these “forever…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Earthquake Prediction has been a challenging research area for many decades, where the future occurrence of this highly uncertain calamity is predicted. In this paper, several parametric and…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Due to increased urbanization and climate change, there has been an increase in bank erosion and destruction of riparian zones. Riparian zones are vegetative areas of land bordering streams…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
At present, the environment is an issue worthy of importance, since it has been damaged in great quantity by the lack of awareness of human beings by not using properly some products that af…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Pollution in freshwater ecosystems from chemicals, personal care products, and pharmaceutical products due to ineffective wastewater treatment poses a significant threat to both water qualit…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Daphnia magna is a large, invertebrate water flea species in fresh and brackish waterbodies. The Bacillus thuringiensis (B.t.) strain is a soil bacterium that produces toxic proteins which a…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
The effect of climate warming on the fate of pollutants has aroused attention around the world. Photodegradation is an important transformation process at the plant leaf surface for pesticid…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In comparison to other energy sources, geothermal energy is a safe option. Since it is clean and green, the world has begun to pay attention to geothermal energy. It produces enormous quanti…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Irregular surface area, such as lake area, is hard to calculate using definite integrals and is traditionally calculated by using graph paper with small squares. Utilizing the Monte Carlo me…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
I was watching the news one day and heard about a little boy who died due to swallowing a button cell battery. I thought how could a battery that seems coated and protected kill anyone? The…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Marine sponges (phylum Porifera) have the important job of controlling bacterial populations in coral reefs. The recent abundance of marine microplastics, however, which often harbor a micro…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Ever-increasing global warming, climate change & human disruptions have resulted in unprecedented frequency, spread & intensity of destructive wildfires across continents. Thus, effective sy…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Temperate aquatic ecosystems in North America face threats due to the introduction of zebra mussels and harmful algal blooms (HABs). Zebra mussels and cyanobacteria, a common type of HAB, ca…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this experiment is to further investigate the ability of galleria mellonella (the larvae of the greater wax moth) to digest and naturally biodegrade polyethylene: plastic type…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences First Award
Landslides cost billions in damage annually in the U.S. & have affected 4.8 million people over the past 2 decades. Landslide forecasting is therefore a critical task for protecting human li…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This project aimed to identify how the implementation of green infrastructure (GI) water harvesting systems impacts the carbon cycle by studying shifts in microbial composition and function.…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Coral reefs, which house millions of marine organisms and drive multibillion dollar tourism and ?shing industries, have been under severe threat of bleaching due to the warming, acidi?cation…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Sunspot records only go back a few hundred years, so there is limited information available to predict solar behavior. This project studied high-resolution ice cores which store 10k+ years o…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Applying lessons learned from the tremendous damage caused by the major earthquake in 2011, Kochi City is rapidly implementing measures such as evacuation drills in various areas to reduce l…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Plastic is an indispensable and persistent material used in everyday life. Plastic contamination is found in terrestrial and marine environments which can be fragmented into microscopic micr…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Hawaii is a biodiversity hotspot with high levels of endemism. Many endangered species are vulnerable to climate change. The project's purpose is to determine the habitats threatened by sea-…