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ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Observations indicate that offset inner-eyewall of the double eyewall typhoons would rotate counterclockwise inside the outer eyewalls. The rotation results in a trochoidal track when the ty…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
If passed, a recent proposal by the EPA will take away the Clean Water Act’s protection of intermittent headwater streams which make up around 9 million of America’s stream miles. Due to the…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Microplastics have become ubiquitous in marine ecosystems. Toxic chemicals can leach from microplastics posing significant health risks to marine life. Removal of microplastics is difficult…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
The world's soils are losing their ability to naturally support crops, and many are approaching exhaustion. Erosion, soil structure degradation, nutrient loss, and soil microorganism populat…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
The rapid growth in urbanization over the past few years has caused the Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomenon- an occurrence where the temperature of an urban area is significantly greater than…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Trees, especially older and mature trees, provide communities with numerous environmental benefits. These environmental benefits lead to improved community health and reduced spending. This…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Traditional process of sweet potato, a popular raw material used for food production, generates a large amount of protein-rich wastewater which is hard to treat and causes water pollution an…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Coral reef cover has declined due to climate and anthropogenic stressors. While climate stressors have a larger impact, anthropogenic stressors have a more direct impact and can be controlle…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Approximately 2.2 billion people lack access to safely managed water supplies. Biological contaminants and heavy metals pose considerable threats to humanity, but are often expensive to dete…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
To reduce styrofoam pollution, Tenebrio beetles and their larvae, mealworms, are very effective. They can digest and biodegrade polystyrene plastic, or styrofoam, into released carbon dioxid…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Desertification is supposed to be one of the main global problems. There are lots of sandy wastelands in Krasnoye settlement and in its surroundings. Recovery of vegetation and saving its di…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this experiment was to determine if adding biochar to chicken manure would affect phosphorus losses. This is important due to the recent boom of chicken barns in the Nebraska…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Based on USDA’s 2017 Census of Agriculture data, 99% of farmed animals in the US are raised in Animal Feeding Operations (AFOs) or Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs). These AFOs…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In order to gauge the response to the coronavirus in Boston, the air quality at several public transportation stations was measured before and during lockdown. Throughout the entire experime…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Astrobiology is the study of life in the universe, beginning with the origin of life on Earth. This experiment measured how changing the pH of an RNA solution affects the amount of RNA absor…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The increasing greenhouse gas emissions causing climate change have been observed to deplete the nutrient content of crops, which can impact global malnutrition. Zinc is one of the plant mic…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The future of hydro energy is here! You may have heard of government dams generating energy, but not many regular citizens have the money or means to build their own functioning hydroelectri…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fire-retardant slurries have become a popular method for extinguishing fire, particularly when man-made structures are at risk. However, the chemicals within fire-retardant slurries are know…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The study was a comparative study between cotton and lyocell from an environmental, economic, and quality perspective. The results are based on a literature study, on an interview, on a mark…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Lake Erie has always experienced Harmful Algal Blooms, but the worst recorded was in 2011. The intensity of the HAB reached over 3x that of any other season. Many economic and ecological ser…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Upper ocean heat content (OHC) in advance of a hurricane is generally superior to pre-storm sea surface temperature (SST) for indicating favorable regions for hurricane intensification and m…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The uprise of climate change induces a harmful increase in carbon dioxide. One deleterious effect of excess atmospheric CO2 is, notably, the decrease in access to quality air, leading to egr…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Studies of lava caves is essential for predicting the impact of future volcanic eruptions as well as for geotourism. It is also valuable for potential use of lava tubes on the Moon and Mars…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This paper focuses on the production of bioplastics using persimmon pruned branches. The aim of this study was to reduce environmental pollution caused by plastics. We examined that persimmo…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
We live in a world where, despite various awareness campaigns, deforestation are rife. Our project aims to find a fuel from waste that can compete with traditional fuels (charcoal, logs, etc…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Based on the study conducted at Poznan water treatment plant in Warsaw, which uses freshwater mussels as an early warning system for heavy metal contamination in their water. This study aims…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Ground-level ozone is a photochemical smog and secondary pollutant that is harmful to urban populations by increasing the risk of heart and lung disease and harming agricultural crops. It is…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Weather forecasting is traditionally done by physical models, which are unstable to perturbations. Even the best simulators can be inaccurate due to insufficient knowledge of the underlying…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this study was to investigate natural waste products that could potentially replace the polystyrene and other synthetic plastics used in disposable face masks. The global prod…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Cadmium pollution is a very serious problem in waterways located near farmland due to the presence of cadmium in fertilizers. The purpose of this project is to identify cadmium levels in the…