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ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
The influx of nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen have resulted in the conditions for aquatic life and ecosystems to start degrading, causing dissolved oxygen that was once abundantly ava…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
Clean drinking water is one of the most important requirements for survival and obtaining it can be a challenge if not impossible for many. One method of getting clean water is through filtr…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
The average American drinks over 39,000 microplastics (MPs) annually. Studies on human cells suggest MPs are potential neurotoxins and carcinogens, further emphasizing the need for better te…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
Problem Definition The lack of competent authorities to follow up on forests and their problems and the lack of tracking devices in the forests have caused 420 million hectares of forests to…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
National Geographic reports that desertification threatens the well-being of billions of people, as four million square kilometers of fertile land are degraded annually. Exacerbated by clima…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering First Award
Peatland ecosystems are the largest natural terrestrial carbon store on earth. Healthy peatlands act as carbon sinks, trapping atmospheric CO2 as soil organic matter. However, anthropogenic…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
Microplastic pollution is a severe threat to aquatic ecosystems, necessitating innovative approaches for efficient removal. This research introduces a method for eliminating microplastics by…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
Citizen science programs rely on volunteer collected data to assist in ground truthing of satellites. Ground truthing is comparing field samples with remotely sensed data from a satellite fo…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
Haze affects the worst in terms of health, safety, and visibility. Low visibility conditions in haze increase the risk of road accidents. According to the American Federal Highway Administra…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
Currently, there are 5.25 trillion microplastics and 269,000,000 kilograms of waste in oceans and seas. This increase in pollution leads to the death and even extinction of aquatic life. We…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Since the beginning of modern plastic's invention nearly a century ago, the human species as a whole has continually increased its rate of plastic consumption and waste. Until recently, this…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
With an estimated 6.7 million people dying from air pollution annually, and millions of others suffering from illnesses that are either caused or exacerbated by this epidemic, the AQI has be…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
Biogeochemical cycles are series of processes that transfer compounds through an ecosystem. Can the geochemical cycles of phosphorus and nitrogen be managed effectively through harvest of Ch…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), highly toxic and carcinogenic compounds, constitute a significant threat to the environment and public health, both on local and global scales. Nevertheless…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
The ocean receives a large amount of pollution each year with plastics accounting for eighty percent. Plastics break down from sun, wind, and water exposure and cause microplastic pollution.…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Wastewater is expected to increase by 24% in 2030, posing significant risks to health and the environment. Titanium carbide (2D MXene) membranes offer a potential solution for wastewater tre…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
Access to clean water is one of our most basic human needs, and unsafe drinking water is one of the world's largest health and environmental problems. In 2022, 2.2 billion people globally st…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Global warming poses a pressing challenge marked by rising temperatures and environmental impacts. Methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) are the main drivers of this phenomenon due to their…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
Water is a valuable natural resource that is used in virtually every part of our daily life. However, the problem of water shortage is getting worse by year, and it is projected that almost…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
The escalating population and urbanization have led to a surge in municipal solid waste (MSW), posing numerous challenges in MSW collection and transportation. Garbage trucks, pivotal in thi…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
Background Natural carbon capture is crucial to reduce carbon emissions. While plants store carbon, satellite data exhibits that underground fungal networks capture 36% of carbon emissions.…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
In Dona Ana County, pollutants such as arsenic and chlorine, are often found in concentrations higher than what is considered safe in drinking water and bring upon long-term health consequen…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Eutrophication affects 65% of coastal and 53% of freshwater regions in the US but no scalable cyanobacterial degradation methods exist. Piezocatalysis harnesses mechanical energy to produce…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
The objective of this experiment is to develop an efficient automatic water filtration system aimed at safeguarding sea grasses in the wild from turbidity. This system is proposed as a viabl…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
Single-use PET bottles, while providing numerous applications worldwide, are a major source of micro-plastic contamination. PET filament pultrusion is one technique for recycling PET bottles…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
Currently, there is a huge problem with facilitated and single-stream plastic recycling. According to UNEP, 85% of plastics end up in landfills. However, this is not the fault of recycling f…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
In line with the Paris agreement, the world's future is to target Net Zero Emission (NZE) to support global efforts for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Global transportation increases gre…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Microplastics have become one of the new pollutants which have aroused international concern, and they even pose a potential threat to human health. In this project, a classical Fenton-like…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
Purpose: The phenomenon of floating weeds is a reflection of the quality of a body of water, which at the same time can indirectly lead to an ecological imbalance of the waters in which it i…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
As demand for aviation rapidly grows with both the increasing population of humanity and the globalization of the world, the environmental effects that aviation contributes to climate change…