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ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This study purposely aimed to determine the effects of substances on the growth of plants. The researcher hypothesized that adding substances into the growing medium will alter the genetic m…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
This project was an investigative study into the environmental impacts of the distribution of arsenic contaminated soil within inundation zones affected by the 1960 Chilean Tsunami in Hilo,…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The Ouachita Mountains contain two major categories of rock formations: pre-orogenic and syn-orogenic. This study focuses on the Hot Springs Sandstone, which is separated from the Arkansas N…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Hurricanes pose a threat to property and human life. Hurricane Sandy (2012) was unusual in that it recurved to the west as it traveled north, rather than recurving to the east, resulting in…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In 2010, the pyroclastic flows from Merapi vocano (Indonesia), deviated from the track and caused a big damage and big diverification in its morphology. Related to volcanic eruption, a local…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Seaweed has been used for a long time as a source of food, animal fodder, medicine, in cosmetic products, and textile etc. As the demand for organic products is increasing every day, this pr…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Black carbon (BC) aerosol particles originate from the combustion process and absorb wavelengths within the visible light spectrum which in turn warms the atmosphere and may contribute to an…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
This study investigated for the first time whether ants could serve as a model organism for rapidly screening chemical effects on key social behaviors of honeybees. Current tests of honeybee…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The objective of this experimentation was to analyze the piezoelectric and pyroelectric effects that are exhibited by alpha-crystalline silicon dioxide. This was accomplished by using a hydr…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
We wanted to invent a cheaper more efficient way of obtaining purified water in third world countries. We came up with the self-purifying water bucket. It produces sufficiently filtered wate…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this experiment was to demonstrate the effect of pH level on phytoplankton. They are base of food chain, feeding a wide range, controlling carbon dioxide, and producing 85 per…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Black Rubber, commonly found in tires and crumb rubber, is known to have carcinogenic materials and compounds such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and heavy metals. Crumb rubber is recyc…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Those involved in the citrus industry understand the ongoing struggle of warding off pests from their crop to ensure the best product. Diaphorina citri, or more commonly, the Asian citrus ps…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Maintaining a healthy bee population is of vital importance to the sustainability of our planet, as bees are essential for the future of agriculture and the stability of the Earth’s food sup…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Accurate data on urban growth and on-going processes is needed to sustainably plan the expansion of cities. Satellite remote sensing has great potential for mapping urban areas regularly in…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Some species such as oysters can change their vital functions and/or their genetic composition, becoming bioindicators, when there are alterations in their environment. The hypothesis is: if…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The processes of water evaporation and condensation play a defining role in many atmosphere phenomena. Kinetics of condensation determines the character of the development of such phenomena…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Wyoming is the largest producer of sub-bituminous coal in the United States, and produces enough energy to provide the electricity needs for nearly half of all of the people living in this c…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
An excess or depletion of algae can devastate an ecosystem, so understanding the conditions affecting algae growth is essential for preserving a strong ecosystem. A numerical model is an eff…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This research examines the hypothesis that intrinsic antibiotic resistance differs according to habitat. I think that the biofilm is creating an environment that is causing the microbes on t…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
With the increase of production and research of dye synthesized solar cells (DSSC), solar technology as a whole has advanced and could possibly cause solar technology to expand to all househ…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Nowadays , plastics is very famous . But we realize that using plastics are dangerous to us as well as the Earth . Durio Plastico is a biodegradable plastic from durian seeds . It can be an…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
According to a NOAA study on “Nutrient Dynamics and Changes to Benthic Communities in Vatia, American Samoa”, Vatia Bay is experiencing an unusual overgrowth of benthic algae, threatening to…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Oceans make up seventy percent of our world, containing the most diverse ecosystems. The ocean also serves as a gigantic carbon ‘sponge’, absorbing humanities excess carbon dioxide. At the c…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Acesulfame, sucralose, and saccharin are artificial sweeteners and used as sugar substitutes in foods and beverages. From last year’s research, it was found that these sweeteners could not b…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Anthropogenic emissions of methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) especially from large cities have resulted in the build-up of greenhouse gas concentrations responsible for climate change.…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Water vapor is one of the major greenhouse gases in the atmosphere along with carbon dioxide and has a great impact on the greenhouse effect. Therefore, it is very important to know distribu…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
It can be found that lichen are commonly used as bioindicators by scientists in order detect air pollution. This project was targeted at evaluating if lichens can be used as bioindicators ju…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Man-made polymers create a strain in waste management strategies as decomposition is not practical and combustion of these material creates greenhouse gases. The researched method will decre…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Every day millions of loads of laundry are done in in the United States alone. Many, if not most, include synthetic fibers. During washing, micro-plastic fibers are released from the fabric,…