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ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Subpolar glaciers in the Gulf of Alaska and northwestern Canada are one of the important contributors to sea level rise from global warming. The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRAC…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Earthquakes are a major global risk, causing the most fatalities among all natural disasters, as well as significant amount of injuries, displacements, and economic losses. While there has b…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
The global water crisis is a well-documented fact. It affects all regions and demographics. Atmospheric water harvesters (AWHs) have not been explored well as an option for freshwater. An es…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Over the last few years, devastating fires in California have destroyed habitats, released toxic fumes, and caused extreme heat. The megafires of 2020 burned 4.5 million acres, straining fir…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) pollution is a global issue affecting both the environment and human health. Although industrial PCB manufacturing has been banned, PCBs remain in water, soil,…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Microplastics in the environment are a source of emerging pollution with proposed negative impacts across all ecosystems. Plastic preproduction pellets called nurdles are a form of microplas…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Both the process of infrastructure development of settlements in suburban areas will have various impacts on changes in natural resources. Physically, the changes that occur are the reductio…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Florida’s waters have recently been plagued by Harmful algal blooms. Although a variety of factors may act as contributors, nutrient loading is often cited as a major factor. Previous resear…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
In North America, the spruce beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis) has killed more spruce trees than any other natural cause (Colorado State Forest Service, 2020). The purpose of this research pr…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Remote sensing of water quality parameters and contaminants is a cheap and efficient alternative to traditional in-situ water sampling methods. Sensors on satellites detect the reflectance o…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
The Red River Valley has seen large quantities of rainfall in recent years, which has caused many farmers to tile their fields. I constructed and tested a simulated tiled environment to see…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
This study focuses on creating a machine learning model that will predict the spread of any invasive species. This study used hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA), an invasive forest pest that poses…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In this investigation the environmental impacts of the introduced species, Salix fragilis, which is commonly called Crack Willow were researched and investigated. Crack willows are listed on…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Lack of access to drinking water due to anthropogenic hydrosphere pollution is a widespread humanitarian issue facing the global population, particularly those vulnerable due to their geogra…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Microplastic pollution in water is now recognized as a devastating problem by many organizations, such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, with recent studies estimating…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Estimating the intensity of tropical cyclones (TCs) is one of the most important aspects in TC forecasts. Currently, the operational method of TC intensity estimation is the Dvorak Technique…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Approximately 200 million people worldwide are affected by arsenic-contaminated water for reasons such as drinking tube well groundwater. In 2019, the author created a novel and inexpensive…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Humans have fallen in love with plastics, from toys, to food containers, to bags, and straws. Scientists have been researching and warning about plastic pollution in the ocean for decades. T…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Lead and cadmium have many adverse effects on the environment and human body, ranging from developmental hindrance to affecting vital organs within the human body. Lead and cadmium poisoning…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In this study, the effect of nitrate concentrations on the anuran species abundance in aquatic habitats across Long Island was investigated. Anurans are frogs and toads. With recent declines…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
In recent years, many severe and destructive wildfires have plagued the state of California. Extreme fire conditions, such as drought, that occur especially during autumn months in Californi…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Overwatering and underwatering are widespread issues with environmental, financial, and safety consequences. Current approaches to assessing grass water use efficiency (WUE) are inaccessible…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Antibiotic pollution in soils and groundwater is one of the world’s most pressing problems. There are 1.4µg of antibiotics per-liter of freshwater and 125,000 tons of antibiotics polluted ev…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
According to ONU environment data, the Caribbean is the second most polluted sea by the use of plastics, as well as the countries: China, the United States and the United Kingdom that presen…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Evapotranspiration is a fundamental, but not widely understood, contributor to natural water cycles. This project incorporates a rigorous mathematical equation to help understand evapotransp…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Given the current rate of emissions and level of human-induced warming, and assuming the emissions trend over the past five years continues, how long will it be before the remaining allowabl…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The Purpose of my project is to test the effectiveness of different natural coagulants in the removal of microplastics from water. The Independent variables I tested were the coagulants, (Mo…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Water is the most important natural resource. There are many ways to prevent water evaporation, including the recently used “Shade Balls”. They are four inch polyethylene balls that cover re…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
The protection zones or capture zones of springs in a desert environment can be hard to identify, but they are critically important for spring protection. Most springs fed by regional aquife…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
The purpose of this experiment was to determine efficacy of lab-engineered pesticide resistant D. pulex as environmental buffers against the effects of malathion on H. littoralis. Pesticide…