Browse 107 real Earth and Environmental Sciences projects entered in 2018, with abstracts, awards and links to the original entries.
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The phenomenon of the Sailing Stones refers to grinding tracks in the clay with stones at their end. The most common place showing this phenomenon is the Racetrack Playa in Death Valley Cali…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Noctiluca scintillans, a dinoflagellate species, has a unique capability as a mixotroph to both photosynthesize and feed on organic nutrients. This behavior has allowed it to persist in the…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Nitrophenols (Nphs), a chemical used for synthesizing in pesticides, insecticides, herbicides and other industries, is a major source of water pollution. Due to population growth, the usage…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Purpose: To determine the effects of location, weather, and time of year on small and large air particles in a quantitative analysis. Procedure: Download Dylos software to record data with l…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
In the past decade, Cookeville’s population has grown by 11%. This rate of urbanization will prove to be harmful to local infrastructure and watersheds. Thus, I wanted to investigate its imp…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Renewable wind energy shows promise for other uses beyond electricity for homes. This project proposes a method that will utilize the electricity generated by a wind turbine to move a water…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this experiment was to prove that activated carbon can neutralize the harmful effects of Imidacloprid, a pesticide. Using activated carbon can be a way for farmers and landown…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Soil depletion and loss of water due to evaporation, is greatly affecting agriculture efficiency across the globe. This project aims to solve this global crisis by doing a comparative study…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This study provides a baseline assessment of the water quality of the Upper Gulpha Creek Watershed within Hot Springs National Park boundaries with an emphasis on the two residing man-made i…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The Green River Formation is one of the world’s most productive fossil sites, with its Fossil Butte Member (FBM) immaculately preserving millions of individual freshwater fish from the Eocen…
CSEF · 2018
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals I was curious to see if the different north and south facing aspects in Lundy Canyon create substantially different temperatures and snow depths due to varying amounts of su…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Finding a sustainable, cost effective, and environmentally friendly sorption source will prove useful for cleaning contaminants from water supplies, especially for third world countries. The…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this project was to see if superworms would consume more polystyrene than mealworms over a time span of 168 hours. Comparing the lifestyles of superworms and mealworms,it is l…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
The area around Ajuy river in Iloilo, Philippines is currently being mined for manganese ore, and river water samples exceed the maximum manganese contaminant level set by US-EPA. At the sam…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The issue of environmental pollution has become a hot issue in today's world. Nanotechnology offers advantages to improve existing environmental technologies, has three main capabilities tha…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Indonesia is a country in South East Asia and has 17.504 islands, mostly, those islands are still untouched by technology, so local residents predict weather by reading nature to fulfill the…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Efficient carbon dioxide (CO2) separation from mixed gas streams is necessary in industrial flue gas remediation, fuel gas refining, and chemical production such as sulfur, ammonia, and hydr…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this experiment was to determine whether coniferous or deciduous trees remove more carbon dioxide from the air per year (kg/year) to look into the factors of reducing global w…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Abstract: Over the last years, the availability of drinking water has decreased, while dead zones in water bodies has increased considerably. In the Coba lagoon, gray water discharges were o…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Today, people in some countries eat little fruits and berries because of their short shelf lives and transportation technology imperfections. Natural polymers are known to be used as "edible…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
The aim of this investigation is to determine the inhibitory effects of sodium bicarbonate and potassium bicarbonate on Aspergillus flavus and its hepatocarcinogenic metabolite Aflatoxin B1…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The amount of native forests left on Moloka‘i is only 15% (Sarhangi, 2017). On a field trip, we observed that non-native forest seemed to have a lack of variety in plants. However, the nativ…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In this study, the things that can be done to reduce the pollution that comes from the detergents in household waste that cause hydrophilic and terrestrial pollution were researched. Ecologi…
ISEF · 2018
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 · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This research is motivated by blooming algae cases caused by the poor water conditions in Indonesia. Researchers developed green mussels’ shells powder coated with oil palm empty fruit bunch…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Plastic pollution is extremely bad for the environment. It kills thousands of organisms yearly and that number will only grow. Being able to cut back that plastic or get rid of it all togeth…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In Kansas, there has been an exponential increase in the number of earthquakes. A factor of 21 in 2013 to 659 in 2014, and 448 in 2015. It is vital that we understand why this increase is oc…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Although coal is one of the detrimental factors to the environment, it makes up about 40% of electricity generation around the world according to the IEA (the International Energy Agency). C…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Mangrove forests are well-known for their fertility and are important ecosystems of South East Asia. Although conservative attempts, such as reforestation, have been vastly made, the area si…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The objective of this research was to determine the effect of red mangrove leaves extract on the growth of Escherichia coli bacteria. The Jobos Bay National Reserve of Estuary Investigations…