28 projects whose affiliated fair was here.
28 projects · showing 1–28
ISEF · 2026
Animal Sciences
Declining Arctic sea ice is rapidly altering polar bear habitat and increasing interactions with human activities. This study investigated how sea-ice loss influences polar bear movement and…
ISEF · 2025
Materials Science
A Faraday cup is a conductive cup that serves as a plasma detector, catching the charged particles in a vacuum and measuring the particle flow rate. Due to its advantages in being simple, ac…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Planetary biodiversity is declining at alarming rates. Species conservation depends on knowing what species are present in an environment and in what quantities. A keystone species in Alaska…
ISEF · 2024
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Robots that require smooth, precise, and robust movement along flat ground have become ubiquitous: warehouse operations, competitive robotics, and assistive robots in human spaces like offic…
ISEF · 2023
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
Understanding species distribution and abundance is critical to managing and conserving planetary biodiversity. Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) are keystone species of cultural, economic,…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
At least 14 million tons of plastic, half being single-use items, pollute the environment each year. Most of this plastic is petroleum-based and can take up to 1000 years to degrade. This pr…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Though acquiring about 99% of its yearly electrical energy from hydropower plants, Juneau is nearing its consuming capacity. As global warming advances, more and more people are switching to…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
According to Ocean Planet, 363 million gallons of oil go down the world's drains every year. I designed a filtration device that removed water flowing into storm drains. Building on previous…
ISEF · 2019
Microbiology
Water-borne skin-infection pathogens pose a significant threat to rural and occupational coastal environments, particularly in the fishing industry. While bee honey has been found effective…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
As climate patterns change and more pollutants enter the environment, many devastating natural disasters wreak havoc on communities and the ecosystems around them. One such disaster is harmf…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Harmful algal blooms (HABs) have greatly devastated the world’s aquatic ecosystems. Therefore, it is an objective to find a viable solution to a detrimental problem. The root of the problem…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology
The medical field is desperately seeking natural antimicrobials to solve the problem of antibiotic resistance. Honey inhibits bacterial growth and is already being used in clinical settings.…
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
Behavioral and Social Sciences
I estimate the effect of marginal changes in the minimum wage on the science scores of 15-year-old Canadian students in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2015 test. B…
ISEF · 2016
The parathyroid hormone (PTH) maintains calcium homeostasis by influencing bone cell activity. Less bone formation than resorption results in osteoporosis. Naturally-simulated PTH prevents d…
ISEF · 2016
During the summer months, Alaska is an international crossroad for millions of migratory birds from around the world. To investigate the possibility of various avian influenza viruses carrie…
ISEF · 2016
Biochemistry
This project details the habitat preferences of the rougheye rockfish complex. These long-lived and late-maturing fishes are highly vulnerable to overfishing. This commercially harvested com…
ISEF · 2016
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 u…
ISEF · 2015
This experiment is about research that identified the process by which bacteria develop drug resistance. Seven generations of Escherichia coli were bred to be resistant to ampicillin. (Note…
ISEF · 2015
Ocean acidification is the ongoing decrease in the pH of the Earth’s oceans, caused by an increase in carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. The more CO2 produced, the more oceans absorb.…
ISEF · 2015
Gramine, hordenine, and tannic acid are secondary metabolites found in animal fodder, such as reed canarygrass and sorghum, that can be toxic or detrimental to animals. However, these plant…
ISEF · 2015
To ascertain how fish condition and energy density varied with fish habitat in the Alaskan Arctic, three major habitats were sampled; Elson lagoon, the Chukchi Sea, and the Beaufort Sea near…
ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
To determine how temperature affects the growth of Pacific blue mussels (Mytilus trossulus), we grew eighty mussels for two months at four different temperatures. After growing the mussels,…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
The purpose of this study was to determine if there is a genetic difference in the two populations of Capelin (Mallotus villosus). The null hypothesis was that the two populations are not ge…
ISEF · 2014
Cellular and Molecular Biology
This experiment looks into differences in protein content in Ichthyophonus positive and negative Halibut from the Lower Cook Inlet area. The Halibut these samples were taken from were caught…
ISEF · 2014
Biomedical and Health Sciences
To determine how the distance from various Southeast Alaska hatcheries to Icy Strait, Alaska affects the migration timing of juvenile Chum Salmon (Oncorhynchus keta), fish were examined from…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Third Award
Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (PSP) has been a pressing problem in Alaska for some time, especially recently. Numerous people residing in villages and coastal communities throughout Alaska l…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
To determine how distance from a stream affects the abundance of lichens, I recorded the abundance class of 10 different lichen genera growing on trees at different distances from a stream n…