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ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
We researched the correlation between varying levels of carbon dioxide on the freshwater Malaysian Trumpet snails. This research was inspired by a well-known ocean acidification shell experi…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Develop an application to encourage native tree species to be planted so native birds will return to San José, Costa Rica. Forest App is based on an application that encourages native tree s…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This experiment determines if data from 1975, on water hardness in the US ties in with todays data. Email FFA advisors in US & ask to send area water samples. Organize vials by water hardnes…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In our hometown, there are often places where plants don’t grow well. Because of the lack of plants in those areas, soil erosion is easily caused by localized heavy rain and strong wind, whi…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Purpose: Nowadays, there is no environmental-friendly method of jadeite treatment, also this mineral is rather rare, so the purpose of this work is to consider the possibility of jadeite syn…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Oil and gas fuel our lives and our world, but the impact of certain operational methods could have negative consequences on the environment and the earth, including what lies beneath the sur…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In this project, a scaled model of the atmosphere was built to test the effect of water vapor on temperature of the troposphere. Water vapor could be acting as a mode of transportation for e…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Harmful Algae Blooms (HABs), which are fatal to aquatic ecosystems, human health, and water-reliant industries, largely occur because of unnatural increases of Nitrate and Phosphate and are…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Weather in mountainous area is changeable and difficult to predict, compared with that in the flat plains, because of the fluctuant local factors that influence the weather. Only little has…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Over the past few decades, Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs), or commonly known as red tide, have increased in their frequency and magnitude around the world. HABs can cause massive fish kills and…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
The purpose of this project was to further test the principles of the “Windshield Wiper” Model and develop a comprehensive hot spot map of arsenic contaminants within Waiakea Pond and throug…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Downstream riverside communities in the Four Corners Region face a potential threat from metals and metalloids from abandoned mines located in southwestern Colorado. In 2015, the Gold King M…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This research explores the use of naturally sourced sediments as a base for flocculants to mitigate Florida red tide (Karenia brevis) blooms. Flocculation is the process of removing Karenia…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
MOBILE WEATHER STATION AND DATABANK Berk BEKTEMUR, Asli DOGU Private Anabilim Anatolian High School, Istanbul, Turkey PURPOSE In order to produce more accurate data for climate and weather,…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
This project investigated the relationship between long-term trends (1980-2017) in tropical cyclone (TC) intensity and the TC wind speed evolution within the Western Tropical Atlantic (WTA)…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Many different kinds of diseases are spreading around the world for example asthma and nose allergies. According to my research, I used 4 samples ( Sponge filter, Palm leaf, Palm fronds, Sac…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Environmental DNA (eDNA) detection is utilized to non-invasively detect logistically difficult to identify organisms. Genetic material shed into the environment is concentrated from samples…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Diabetes is one of the most prevalent diseases on Earth. The most commonly used pharmaceutical to treat diabetes is metformin HCl. Attention and alarm over the environmental effects of this…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Water pollution is one of the major problems in this world. Nearly 15% of water pollutants come from domestic laundry effluents namely, detergents and chemical softeners. Traditionally, papa…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Toxic waste such as petroleum-based plastics are a factor that contribute seriously to environmental deterioration, being a poison for ecosystems. In the Community of San Pablito, Mexico, Am…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Biofouling is a biological attachment on structures submerged in sea water that causing severe economic lost. The use of antifoulant paint containing TBT (Tributyltin) has been banned becaus…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Recently, drought conditions in South Asia have resulted in the starvation and suicides of over 500,000 individuals due to crop yield drastically decreasing. Plants are severely affected by…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In the United States, 20% of land is susceptible to sinkholes. Designs derived from civil engineering (structural health monitoring system (SHMS) and wireless sensor network (WSN)) and compu…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Coagulation/flocculation is the process of treating turbid water by using coagulants to clump fine particles and collecting them into a floc for removal. American Samoa uses synthetic coagul…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Tropical cyclones (TCs, or typhoons in the western North Pacific) typically produce heavy rainfall within approximately 200 km radius. Some TCs induce extreme rainfall in remote areas when t…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The goal of this project is to simulate the application and use of limestone in acidic riparian systems, and how it positively impacts water chemistry from toxic tributaries within the Upper…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This experiment focuses on the effect of sargassum on marine pH. By keeping sargassum in different treatments with varying initial pH, I measured pH, salinity, and ammonia over 19 days in si…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Many ecologically important marine organisms have shells and skeletons composed of calcium carbonate (CaCO3). The decline of coral reef growth and viability due to ocean acidification is esp…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Objective: I was curious to see if watersheds with melting glaciers would have a greater early fall streamflow than watersheds without glaciers. Methods: I selected study watersheds in the S…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
One of the main causes of global warming is deforestation. In the Philippines, the main causes of deforestation are illegal logging and the slash-and-burn agriculture but in spite of this, f…