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ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
“Clean, accessible water for all” is one of the United Nations’ sustainable development goals. Electrocoagulation(EC), a form of decontamination using electricity, can help meet this goal fo…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Non-biodegradable products such as Styrofoam can be extremely dangerous to the environment. Certain types of larvae are able to consume plastics, such as Styrofoam. I decided to alter the St…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The development of this work was carried out in the forests of Panama in the community of Ustupu to determine the biodiversity of insects that are attracted with colorful dishes and in this…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Mangrove forest provides unique ecosystem and nursery for aquatic animals, along with sediment trapping and coastal erosion prevention. Since deforestation has been a major problem for mangr…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
This second-year study explored how an active tropical moisture season affected the dynamics of the phytoplankton populations of Estero Bay. The hypothesis states that as an active tropical…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Satellite remote sensing of ocean color provides a synoptic view of global oceans, and has greatly improved our understanding of marine ecosystem productivity and the ocean’s role in Earth’s…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This project is an engineering/botany project. Everything is hand-constructed in the biome. There are integrated systems to regulate water chemistry for optimum fish and plant health. The sy…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Microplastics are small plastic particles that are generally less than 5 mm in diameter and can come from cosmetics, clothing, weathered and degraded plastic, and more. There has been growin…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Microplastics are an increasingly problematic aspect of plastic pollution with an estimated 83% presence in tap water worldwide. Microplastics are under 5 mm in size and circulate oceans, ha…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2 NPs) are an abundant heavy metal stressor frequently discharged as industrial effluent. There has been little research on the effect of TiO2 NPs on aquat…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Due to increase in transport workload in the water area, cases when oily substances get into the sea have become more frequent. Since the problem of spills is actual these days and it is of…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
The cost of damage caused by hurricanes in 2017 is estimated to be over 200 billion dollars. Quick and accurate prediction of the path of a hurricane and its strength would be very valuable…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Pharmaceuticals and personal care products(PPCPs) are aquatic contaminants that have been detected in surface water globally. However, their aquatic toxicity, especially in complex mixtures,…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Today’s farmers must be innovative and cautiously smart with the way that the markets are continuing to trend. They must figure out how cost may be eliminated, what they can do to increase p…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences First Award
Developing countries often have poor monitoring and reporting of weather and crop health, leading to slow responses to droughts and food shortages. Here, new satellite data analysis tools we…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Microplastics consist of small plastic particles in commercial products as well as plastics that degrade in the environment. Microplastic pollution is of growing concern because microplastic…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
In 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster released a considerable amount of radioactive materials into the environment. In the time after the disaster, the government had a deficit of…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Having grown up in rural Australia, we are acutely aware of water’s importance in agriculture. In our rural area it’s common to go weeks or even months without rain. For this reason we are f…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In order to find a cost-efficient alternative method to treat Groundwater Under the Direct Influence of Surface Water (GUDI) wells, an experiment was conducted to implement an alternative wa…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Wildfires have become increasingly frequent and severe due to global climatic change, demanding improved methodologies for wildfire modeling. Traditionally, wildfires are assessed through po…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
During a year plants provide large amounts of matter full of cellulose. The biggest part of matter can be found in the crops, leaves and grass. People do not use this matter enough and even…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This takes place in the Samoan Islands, located in the South Pacific Ocean.I have been working on finding this underwater vent for 8 months, and it has involved so much of my time and resour…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The increasing usage of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) in consumer and antibacterial products without regulation raises concerns about their environmental toxicity. Silver nanospheres have bee…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Currently, the only sinkhole detection technique is by interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR), which is both costly and inefficient. This project aims to provide more efficient sin…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Plastic pollution is a global issue threatening the health of marine and land ecosystems. Smaller "microplastics" (<5mm) are particularly problematic as they can be consumed by marine creatu…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Before dams were built on the Columbia and Snake rivers, thousands of Sockeye Salmon would migrate from the Pacific Ocean to their breeding grounds at Redfish Lake in central Idaho. Now that…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Pesticide runoff is a major challenge facing the agricultural and landscape industries today. The vast majority of sprayed pesticides end up in an environment other than their intended desti…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences First Award
Every year, devastating wildfires cause substantial environmental and economic damage all around the world. In most cases, firefighters are unable to identify wildfires until the flames grow…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fish is an essential and traditional element in the diet of many people in the Caribbean (Ricketts, 2016). However, some species have high concentration of Mercury (Hg), representing an incr…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Chemical differences between fossils of different species, environments, or time periods reveal information about prehistoric habitats, climate, environmental change and specimen origin. Lit…