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ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Coral reefs are a critical part of the ocean’s ecology, being home to 4,000 fish species and 700 types of coral. Increasing levels of carbon dioxide are causing the oceans to acidify. This a…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The Western Pacific region is one of the most populous regions on Earth and also one of the most volcanically active regions. There are at least twenty-five active or dormant volcanoes withi…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fine particle is tiny material that cannot be seen to people. Its size is less than 2.5? in diameter, but it’s very harmful to our health. In some education school’s air condition, serious l…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Is it radioactive? That's what everyone asks when I tell them that I test items from Prince William Sound (PWS) beaches with my family. I am concerned with what is, and what will be, washed…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Crop yields are strongly dependent on average summertime temperatures and extreme heat waves, both of which are projected to increase in the coming century. A statistical model was created t…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The San Francisco stream is one of the most crowded points of the city during summer months. Some reasons are its proximity and easy access to the inhabitants of the city and the fluent freq…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Freshwater pollution is a major environmental threat across the globe, exacerbated by the lack of ongoing scientific data about health of freshwater bodies. One way to address this problem i…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Worldwide 1, out of every 5 deaths of children under 5 is due to a water-related disease. 1 in 9 people world wide do not have access to safe and clean drinking water. The purpose of my expe…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Desalination and purification of seawater could prevent droughts and give all humanity access to clean water. However, current desalination techniques like reverse osmosis (RO) are difficult…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Ice cores extracted from ice sheets contain valuable information about the past atmospheric makeup inside air bubbles within the ice, which are measured by releasing the contents of trapped…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Biodiversity is very important for environmental health since it adds to genetic variability, preventing soil erosion, and discovering new resources. Endemic plants add to the biodiversity o…
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…