EV001 Fluorescent Quantum Dots as a Solid-Phase Detection Medium for Heavy-Metal Contaminates in Drinking Water
# Rikhav Shah, 15, Sophomore, Lake Highland Preparatory School, Orlando, FL
EV002 An Investigation on the Effects of Air-pollutants on Plant Growth Jayde Caroline Bromwich, 16, Junior, Creston College,
Port Shepstone, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
EV003 Impacts of Biochar on Soil Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Soil Moisture, and Crop Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) Concentrations
# Rena Dorothy Weis, 18, Senior, New Prague Senior High School, New Prague, MN
EV004 Titanium Dioxide Nano- and Microparticles: Transport and Fate in Wastewater Treatment Systems
Leah Gage Huling, 17, Senior, Ada Senior High School, Ada, OK EV005 Mining Mystery: The Effect of Acid Mining (Sulfur Compounds)
on Bacillus Mycoides Found on the Stalk of Wild Rice
(Zizania palustris)
# Cassandra Lynn Roy, 18, Senior, Cloquet Senior High School, Cloquet, MN
EV006 The Effects of Pluerotus ostreatus on the Deterioration of Petroleum
# Andrew John Steffl, 16, Junior, St. Mary’s Cathloic High School, Sleepy Eye, MN
EV007 Would You Like Salt with That?
Madison Chyanne Evans, 14, Freshman, Vici High School, Vici, OK EV008 Development and Optimization of a Novel VOC Biofilter to
Remediate Indoor Air Pollution (IAP) Sustainably PLUS an Analysis of Its Impact on Human Lung Health after Integration
### Naomi Chetan Shah, 17, Senior, Sunset High School, Portland, OR EV009 New Sorbent for Water Purification from Oil and Petroleum
Bogdana Bandurko, 17, Junior, Donetskyi Oblastnyi Sanatornyi litsey- internat “Erudit”, Donetsk, Ukraine
EV010 Study on the Effect of the Combination of Cratoneuron filicinim and Algae to Purify Water
Yun Zhu, 15, Freshman, Gaojing No.3 Junior High School, Shanghai, Shanghai, China
EV011 Efficient Degradation of Common Herbicide Metolachlor by a Fungus
Meng Xiao, 18, Senior, The High School Attached to Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, China
EV012 Prospective Study of Logarithmic Spirals and Hurricanes Neil Ferdinand Nathan, 15, Sophomore, Caddo Parish Magnet High School, Shreveport, LA
EV013 Reduction of Nanoparticle Contaminates from Wastewater Using Ion Exchange Capabilities of Aluminosilicate Minerals
Michaela Zae Denniston, 17, Senior, Greybull High School, Greybull, WY
EV014 An Inquiry into the Effect of the Environmental Pollutant Acrylic Aldehyde on Neutrophil Activation
Sanjana Jagdish Rane, 15, Freshman, duPont Manual Magnet High School, Louisville, KY
EV015 Spread No More III
Suchinkumar Sunil Patel, 16, Sophomore, Grants High School, Grants, NM
EV016 Got Male? Does Triclosan Cause Endocrine Disrupting Effects in
Daphnia magna?
Anna Elizabeth Sappington, 16, Sophomore, South River High School, Edgewater, MD
EV017 Use of Biosorbent for Removal of Colour and Heavy Metal from Dyed Waste Water
Sarah Jia Xin Wong, 16, Junior, SMK Batu Lintang, Kuching, Malaysia EV018 A Four Year Mathematical Analysis as a Predictor of Dams Impact
on Biodiversity and Stream Recovery
### Aimee Michelle Turner, 18, Senior, Ballard High School, Louisville, KY EV019 Investigation of Estrogenic Endocrine Disruptors
# Nickolas Aubrey Hines, 17, Junior, Christ the King Cathedral School, Lubbock, TX
EV020 Simple and Cost-Effective Detection of Cadmium Using an Electrochemical Sensor Made with Gold Nanoparticles Seung Hye Choi, 14, Freshman, University High School, Fresno, CA
EV021 The Effects of Acid Precipitation on Lemna minor and Local Invertebrates
Lydia Ann Marie Heald, 17, Junior, Van Buren Community School District, Keosauqua, IA
EV022 Will Anthropogenic Pressures Affect the Osprey and Fish via Sediments of the Missouri River? Is Arsenic (As), Cadmium (Cd), Copper (Cu), Lead (Pb), Zinc (Zn), Mercury (Hg) and Selenium (Se) Contaminating the Missouri River Watershed? Phase II
# Whitney Ashton Clinger, 18, Senior, Cascade Public High School, Cascade, MT
EV023 The Toxin in Rice- Arsenic in Our Food
Anuush Krishna Vejalla, 14, Freshman, Detroit Country Day Upper School, Beverly Hills, MI
EV024 Examining the Global Carbon Crisis: The Impact of Increased Carbon Dioxide on the Biological Processes and Carbon Sequestration of the Diatom Licmophora flabellata
Rachel Elizabeth Sereix, 15, Sophomore, University School of Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL
EV025 Natural Algicide to Combat Eutrophication of Water Bodies Muhammad Ali Zuhazim Bin Rosli, 17, Freshman, Maktab Rendah Sains Mara Taiping, Taiping, Malaysia
EV026 Electronic Drainage Manhole (EDM)
Hadeel S.A Yassin, 15, Sophomore, Talae Al-Amal, Nablus, Palestine EV027 Silent Protection
Raghda O.J. Eshtayeh, 15, Sophomore, Salem Secondary Girls School, Nablus, Palestine
EV028 Study of the Use of Human Hair as a Natural Tool to Clean Polluted Water
Xuewei Ni, 19, Senior, Robinson School, San Juan, Puerto Rico EV029 Percolation vs. Homogenization: The Effects of Phosphate
Amendment on Lead Contaminated Soil
Annika Daniels, 15, Freshman, Ogden Senoir High School, Ogden, UT EV030 The Role of Heavy Metal Resistant Bacteria (Bacillus megaterium,
Bacillus licheniformis) on the Bioaccumulation of Lead in Helianthus annuus
Cindy Y. Jiang, 17, Senior, Central High School, St. Joseph, MO EV031 Home-Based Rapid Arsenic Water Test using Nanotechnology # Thabit Farrukh Pulak, 17, Junior, Richardson High School,
Richardson, TX
EV032 Oxidative Attack and Elimination of Bisphenol A by Manganese Dioxide
# Peter Scott Welcker III, 16, Junior, Parkersburg South High School, Parkersburg, WV
EV033 A Molecular and Morphological Study of ‘Candidatus pasteuria
aldrichii’ to Various Nematode Species as a Biological Control
Kiona Rajene Elliott, 18, Senior, Northeast High School, Oakland Park, FL
EV034 Differential Gene Expression in Lead-exposed
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Preksha Bhagchandani, 17, Junior, Pine Crest School, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
EV035 The Effects of Pesticides on Indicator Species in Aquatic Environments
Emma Rachelle Johnson, 18, Senior, School Without Walls Senior High School, Washington, DC
EV036 Modeling Estuarine Salinity using Artificial Neural Networks # Christopher Wan, 17, Senior, Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the
Arts, West Palm Beach, FL
EV037 Microbial Fuel Cells: Electricity and Water Quality
Alexander James Thompson, 18, Senior, Southeastern High School, Augusta, IL
EV038 Cellulose Nanofibers as a Component of a Low-cost Water Filtration System for Implementation in Developing Countries Mary Ashleigh Butler, 16, Sophomore, Bangor High School, Bangor, ME EV039 The Effect of Lemnaceae on Nitrate Levels in the
Shell Creek Watershed
Brooke Elizabeth Pieke, 17, Junior, Newman Grove High School, Newman Grove, NE
EV040 Does Salicylic Acid and Calcium Carbonate Safely Inhibit Algae Growth in Buck Creek Water?
Humza Shahid Bashir, 17, Senior, Springfield High School, Springfield, OH
EV041 H20h No: Pharmaceuticals Are in My Groundwater! Removal of Sulfamethazine by Hypercrosslinked Adsorbent MN250 in Simulated Groundwater
Maria Elena Grimmett, 14, Freshman, Oxbridge Academy of the Palm Beaches, West Palm Beach, FL
EV042 Effects of Ecological Differences on Biofilm Composition in the Red Sea
Reem Ahmed AlRabiah, 17, Senior, Altarbia Alislamia Schools, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
EV043 Using Natural Materials to Build a Water Filtering System: Making Potable Water from Grey Water
# Quinn Taylor Groff, 17, Senior, Sheldon High School, Sheldon, IA EV044 Contaminated Water Disinfection Using Zero-Valent Iron Filtration
as an Alternative to Chlorination
Alexander Roberto Gasca, 18, Senior, Walter Payton College Preparatory High School, Chicago, IL
EV045 Accumulation of Calcium Contamination
Shay McKinzie Jackson, 18, Senior, Mansfield High School, Mansfield, MO
EV046 The Presence of the Metals in Drinking Water and Its Effect in the
Codiaeum variegatum Leaves
Karlen Marie Aleno, 16, Junior, Specialized High School in Science and Math Thomas Armstrong Toro, Ponce, Puerto Rico
EV047 The Effects of Noxious Weeds on Navy Beans
Carter Joseph Mauch, 15, Sophomore, Hankinson High School, Hankinson, ND
EV048 Protective Role of Selenium against Methylmercury Poisoning in House Crickets (Acheta domesticus)
Devarshi Nikhil Patel, 16, Junior, Red River Senior High School, Grand Forks, ND
EV049 Aquatic Plants: Today’s Solution to River Pollution Gage Connor Metzen, 17, Junior, Hankinson High School, Hankinson, ND
EV050 The Role of Juglone on Soil Organism Survival
Rachel Naomi Johns, 16, Sophomore, Northwestern High School, Kokomo, IN
EV051 Emission Reduction through Solvent Polarity
## Tyler Gordon Toepke-Floyd, 17, Junior, Wishek Public School, Wishek, ND
EV052 A Better World
David Jean Salem Abou Kors, 17, Freshman, Antonine Sisters School, Ghazir, Beirut, Lebanon
EV053 The Effect of Bisphenol A (BPA) on Artemia Salina Survival Quinn K McCormick, 15, Freshman, Jefferson County International Baccalaureate, Birmimgham, AL
EV054 Negative Impact of Stormwater Runoff on Osmoregulation in Adult Palaemonetes vulgaris and Adult and Juvenile
Litopeneaus setiferus
Bridgette Nicole Noonan, 18, Senior, Hilton Head Island High School, Hilton Head Island, SC
EV055 Removal of Dyes from Textile Waste Water by Using Nanoferrites Hilmi Oguzhan Ayan, 16, Sophomore, Ozel Istanbul Fatih Anadolu Lisesi, Istanbul, Turkey
EV056 In Search of Fresh Water: Exploring Various Methods of Desalination for Emergency Use
Abigail H. Millard, 15, Sophomore, Windsor High School, Windsor, VT EV301 A Novel Model for Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Using
U937 and COLO320DM Cell Lines, to Propose a Pathway by which Environmental Toxin, 4-Nonylphenol, May Promote an Inflammatory Response
Albert Kim, 17, Junior
Byeong Ho Jung, 15, Sophomore
Manhasset Secondary School, Manhasset, NY
EV302 Researching Nam River and Making a Tutorial of Ecological Activities
Chae Young Moon, 16, Freshman Ju Eun Sim, 17, Sophomore
Gyeongnam Science High School, Jinju, South Korea
EV303 Predicting Earthquakes by Monitoring the Electron Content of the Ionosphere
Nicolas Javier Marone, 18, Senior Aviv Rabinovich, 18, Senior Ort Henri Ronson, Ashqelon, Israel
EV304 Think Green, Go Blue: Using Cactus Mucilage to Purify Water Manushi Nilesh Shah, 16, Sophomore
Misha Kamal Patel, 15, Sophomore
Oshwal Academy Nairobi Junior High School, Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya EV305 Removal of Heavy Metal Ions Using Fruit Waste
Fatima Moin Veera, 14, Freshman Hania Hasan, 16, Junior
Umme Salma Shabbir Gadriwala, 17, Junior
The Mama Parsi Girls’ Secondary School, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
EV306 The Environmental Refrigerator # Fawzi Moh’d Metwalli, 16, Junior # Nour Abdel Hay Maraqa, 17, Junior
Al Raed Al Arabi, Amman, Shmeisani, Jordan EV307 Algae: A Blooming Fuel Source
Mitchell Thomas Gillin, 17, Junior Madeleine Claire Guyant, 17, Junior
Governor’s School at Innovation Park, Manassas, VA EV308 Detrimental Concentrations of Airborne Fungal Spores
Patrick James Colossi, 17, Senior Nicole Marie Simineri, 18, Senior
Staten Island Technical High School, Staten Island, NY
EV309 The Effect of Pollution and the Greenhouse Effect Over the Solar Constant at Ground Level
Ciprian Constantin Suiu, 17, Sophomore Cristina Mihaela Nedelcu, 18, Senior Constantin Popa, 19, Senior
“Nicu Gane” National College, Falticeni, jud. Suceava, Romania EV310 Winter EcoLab at Your Home
Anastasia Maslighin, 18, Senior Vladislav Sincari, 18, Senior
Lyceum “Nicolae Milescu Spataru”, Chisinau, Moldova
EV311 A Novel Method for Laboratory Wastewater Treatment Using Limestone and Sawdust
Hoang Quoc Pham, 16, Sophomore Dat Huu Pham, 16, Sophomore Hiep Hoang Nguyen, 16, Sophomore Chu Van An Highschool, Hanoi, Hanoi, Vietnam EV312 Wochekiye Beats Radiation Levels on the
Pine Ridge Reservation Savannah Leigh Jensen, 16, Junior Robert Eugene Pourier, 15, Freshman Red Cloud Indian High School, Pine Ridge, SD