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ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The late 20th and early 21st centuries have been marked by significant global climate change resulting in many environmental disasters. Specifically, the recent increase in both frequency an…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences
With water playing a fundamental and irreplaceable role in everyday life, water quality monitoring is crucial for preserving the aquatic ecosystem and ensuring a sustainable planet for the f…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
This research addresses the widespread issue of drinking water contamination in resource-constrained areas. We propose using cost-effective multiparameter microfluidic chips to assess water…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Oil spills continue to affect millions of families yearly. Significant research has gone into the development of both organic and inorganic solvents. However, the issue with these sorbents i…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Biodiversity contributes to ecosystem stability and provision of favorable living conditions. One approach to increase biodiversity involves implementing restoration activities, such as burn…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences
As a result of climate change and sea level rise, low lying areas in the Pacific are vulnerable to saltwater intrusion: the movement of saline water into freshwater. This increases the soil’…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Many row crop fields are near highways, dirt roads, and section lines. This leaves the crops at risk for being contaminated by pollutants from road runoff. The purpose of our project was to…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The heavy metals lead (Pb), copper (Cu), and zinc (Zn) cause an alarming combination of environmental and health problems (Zheng ,2023). Using the Eichhornia crassipes plant, a hyperaccumula…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Biofuels are critical in combating the global climate crisis while providing increasing energy security. However, the current application of biofuels solely emphasizes the utilization of Bio…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Less than 1% of the Earth’s water, a nonrenewable resource is accessible as fresh water to us. Global warming, industrialization and exponential growing human population is exacerbating food…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This research was undertaken to study the behaviour and the use of different habitats by juvenile fishes within the shallow areas of Algoa Bay. Although some researchers have studied the sha…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Geological deposits, volcanic activity, and weathering, along with mining, agriculture, and manufacturing are some of the many ways copper gets into waterways. Copper is one of the most toxi…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Overwhelming research shows microplastics are found in the environment, as well as in the majority of American fish, water, and even meats. While its long-term effects on humans and environm…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences
As a result of aggressive agrochemical use, urban sprawl, and industrialization, heavy metal and Synthetic Organic Compounds (SOC) pollution is predicted to increase at unprecedented rates,…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences
There are over 350,0 wildfires on Earth yearly with the impact of big territories and clear tendency to rise as the climate changes take place. Predictive estimates indicate tripling of the…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Floods are widely considered the most expensive natural disaster due to their destructive nature and severe societal repercussions. Thus, our research seeks to predict flood occurrences and…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The Philippines, ranking as the third most vulnerable nation to natural disasters on a global scale, faces escalating danger posed by typhoons and floods, resulting in significant human casu…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Here is the edited version: In spring 2015, the U.S. Pacific Coast experienced an unprecedented surge in domoic acid concentrations, exceeding federal safety limits by over 700% in some part…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The increasing wildfire frequency and size have posed growing challenges for re-establishing plants after wildfires, making the study of post-wildfire plant regrowth essential for creating e…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Given climate change's widespread impact on weather, it is vital to determine its effects on soybeans, a versatile crop, through yield predictions, to help tackle America’s food insecurity p…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The state of Indiana ranks first in the nation for water recreation impairments. Over 24,000 miles of water streams are polluted and potentially dangerous for human bodily contact. Routine w…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
The United States lost 4.22 million acres of forest in 2021 - equivalent to 775 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions. Remote sensing is the most common model used to monitor deforestatio…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Future climate trends threaten to disrupt sedimentation processes through changing precipitation patterns, affecting river discharge and sediment loads, and sediment runoff to coastal region…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Global discussions on environmental conservation are in the spotlight, mainly due to the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference, where a significant amount of US$ 186.6 million was al…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The goal of this project is to discover if there is a frequency that can be used to enhance the growth and activity of marine plants and systems, such as coral reefs. The purpose is to find…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
The escalating scale of “Global Plastic Pollution” is leading to the omnipresence of Microplastics (MPs), negatively impacting the environment, world's water quality, aquatic organisms, and…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
In this study, I use data science principles to analyze pesticide use and Parkinson's Disease (PD) incidence, internationally. Countries were clustered using DBSCANs, the k-means method, and…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Global soil carbon stock contains more than twice the amount of carbon found in Earth’s atmosphere. Soil respiration (Rs) is the emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) from soil microorganisms and…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The health of a watershed is multifaceted, encompassing physical, chemical, and biological aspects. In the Laguna Madre Watershed, significant landscape shifts have occurred, including the i…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In the state of Hawaii, large areas of land contain contaminated soils due to sugar cane plantations from the plantation era. This era impacted Hawaii’s soil as the plantations used many hea…