7th Grade

Annika M.
Project Phospogypsum: The Effect of Phosphogypsum on the Water-retaining Properties of St. Augustine Grass

Chris P.
How Solar Storms Affect Earth

Connor W.
City Water vs. Bottled Water

Emily R.
Waves

Matthew T.
How do Magnetic Fields Affect Pinto Bean Plants?

Nina G.
Temperature vs. Dissolved Oxygen

Tyler L.
Sprout Speculation

Stephanie L.
Going for the Green

8th Grade

Abbie H.
Soy, Snowmobiles, and Soybeans: The Impact of Soil Compaction Caused by Snowmobile Trails on Soybean Yields in No-Tell Fields

Adarsh B.
Algae—Bloom or Boon: Phytoremediation by Algae

Athman A.
Ethology of Friendship Among Adult Male Bonnet Macaques, Macaca radiata, at Arunachala Hill, India

Brayden W.
Are Termites Picky Eaters?

Ciara C.
The Watershed Diaries

Nora L.
A Study of the effect of Bifenthrin, a Pyreththoid Insecticide, on the Motility of Netina Reclivata

Rachel R.
Which Way Out—A Study of the Exit Tunnels Made by the Goldenrod Gall Fly

Stefano R.
A Study on the Effects of Various Pesticides on Whitefly Infestations and Their Gradual Affect on the Environment

9th Grade

Grant F.
Night Watch: A Study of the Taxonomic Diversity in Insect Orders at a Light Station

Hunter A.
Cleaning the Water

Jessica R.
Hummingbirds and Their Way of Life

John N.
Bear Brook Pollution Confirmed

Luke A.
Electrochemical Treatment of AMD: A Solution to Acid-Mine Drainage?

Michael W.
Analysis of the Massapequa Creek Stream Flow Augmentation and Pond Restoration

Xinran P.
A Survey of Animals Found Under Logs and Soil

Yae-Seul H.
An Experiment to Discover What Lives in the Delaware Raritan Canal

10th Grade

Drew V.
Microhabitat Affinitives for Nudibranch Onchidoris bilamellata on Barred Island, ME

Eva A.
The Effect of Both Light Emitting Diodes and Natural Sunlight on Mung Bean Plant Growth

Jacky C.
The Effect of Primary Seed Coat and Morphological Dormancy on Seed Generation

Joseph R.
The Effect of Burning Different Types of Wood on the Amount of Ash Produced

Lena C.
The Role of Microbial Communities in the Breakdown of Wastewater Pharmaceuticals

Maia P.
Trails in the Snow: The Effects of Reforestation on Mammal Distribution in the Barabool Hills

Megan L.
Thermotropic Leaf Movement in Rhododendrons as an Accurate Thermometer

Nathan C.
Crayfish Distribution, Abundance, Movement, and Response to Ungulate Grazing in the Valles Caldera National Preserve

11th Grade

Bonnie L.
Cryptic Species and Synonym: A Reclassification of the Tropical Spurilla Genus

Jacob B.
The Effects of Urea From Bovine Urine on Diesel Fuel Efficiency

Kate T.
The Comparison of Dissolved Oxygen, pH, Conductivity and Escherichia coli upstream and downstream sites along the Appomattox River

Michelle K.
The Adaptations of Avena sativa When Exposed to Environments with Nutrient Depleted Soils

Nathan R.
Tracking the Red Fox: An Evaluation of Indirect Methods of Studying Vulpes vulpes

Scott B.
Effects of the Aquatic Environment on Growth of the Amphibian Pathogen Bactrachochytrium dendrobatidis

Tanya P.
Colorado River Salinity: Correlation to Geostatra and Mitigation with Carbon Fiber Capacitors

12th Grade

Allison B.
The Effects of Lead on the Growth and Frustule Formation of Diatoms in Aquatic Environments

Doreen X.
The Effectiveness of Organic Waste Products in Remediating a Pit Lake

Elaine G.
Metal Concentrations of Plants in an Engineered Wetland: Establishing Protocols and Base-line Conditions

Erik Z.
Investigating the Ecology of Chelydra s. Serpentina, the Common Snapping Turtle, in a Highly Urban Setting.

Joshua L. J.
The Effects of Grazer Inhibition and Sediment Relocation on the Colonization of Hard Substrates by Microbial Communities

Mali’o K.
Diversity of Foliar Endophytes in Wild and Cultured Metrosideros Polymorpa Inferred from Environmental PCR and ITS Sequence Data

Sean M.
Quantifying the Relative Abundance of Juvenile Atlantic Sturgeon, Acipenser oxyrhychus, in the Hudson River

Taylor W.
Natural Mosquito Control

7th Grade

Adam J.
Energy Conservation: Using Solar Panels

Alyssa C.
Cell: The Smallest Living Things

Brenna H.
Factors that Affect the Rise of Water

Brooke M.
What are the Space Shuttle Launch Effects on Surrounding Ecosystems?

Catherine L.
Rain: Affecting Freshwater Ecosystems

Connor L.
Growing Broccoli

Daniel E.
Small but Very Resistant

Daniel M.
Fish Lights

Emily S.
Losing Lagoons

Eric X.
The Affects of Moon Phases and Moonlight on Plants

Erica M.
Air Pollution Around the House

Esnan T.
Pesticides and Fertilizers: Common but Harmful

Jack A.
Can Vibrio fisheri Detect Bioavailable Water Pollution in the Stony Creek Watershed?

Jenna M.
How Can We Prevent Oil Spills from Harming Marine Life?

Jonathan W.
Pondering About a Pond

Julian H.
Unsoil vs. Soil

Katherine T.
Sunning Preferences of Lizards of the Southwest

Landon G.
Floridian Ethnobotany

Laura P.
Troubled Times for Sea Turtles

Madeline K.
The Affect of Population Density on Light Pollution

Matthew E.
Eating Habits of Backyard Birds and Preference for Cover

Patrick M.
Fish Hawk Drive

Rachel B.
The Pest Becomes The Project: A Study of Ant Invasions

Rachel S.
Hydrilla the Exotic Versus Bog Moss the Native

Rikhav S.
Got Grass

Rogel L.
Which Fruit will Decay the Fastest?

Ryan M.
Let’s Go for a Walk, or Not

Samantha S.
Bacteria Killer

Sarah U.
Chewing vs. Brushing

Storme R.
Do Ants Predict Rain?

Tanner P.
Environmental Impacts on Plant Growth

William M.
Monitoring the Effects of City Buses on the Air Quality Around My House

8th Grade

Amelia G.
Floatables

Katelyn H.
Attack of the Japanese Knotweed

Katherine W.
The Type of Soil Most Susceptible to Becoming Polluted

Katie P.
We Don’t Eat Litter—Why Should Plants?

Ruth D.
Global Warming and the Green Darner Dragonflies

Sophie B.
Zebra Mussel Colonization

Wesley S.
A Study of Local Creek Erosion

 

9th Grade

Abhijith S.
The Affects of Soil Compaction on Plants

Alexander C.
Determining the Growth of Lamium galeobdolan Based on Density

Anastasiya M.
Comparison Experiment of the Water Quality of the Delaware-Raritan Canal and Carnegie Lake

Angela F.
The Affect of Moisture on the Growth Rate f Moss on Rocks

Ariel A.
Feeding Ducks at the Civic Park

Ashwin S.
Snowy Tree Crickets and Their Chirp Rates

Beka D.
Plants Like Coffee Too

Cameron M.
What Type of Snack Sticks do Cockatiels Like Best?

Cassandra D.
What is the Most Influential Factor in the Popagation of the Dalea spinosa?

Dana K.
A Test to Determine the effect of Traditional Road Salt and “Environmentally Friendly” Road Salt on Grass Plants

Daniel E.
Soil Fertility Around a Pond

Delaney V.W.
Solar Energy, the Better Alternative

Grant C.
The Effect of the Ocoee Dam No. 1 on Parkville Lake

Isaac K.
Whirling Away from the Cold

Isis Y.
Object Use in Gelada Baboons and Differences Between Captive and Wild Baboons

Jasper T.
Investigation on Water Quality of the Delaware and Raritan Canal

Joyce C.
The Appearance and Preference of Food of the Easter Gray Squirrel Sciurus carolinensis

Kelly M.
Finding Use for a Teddy-Bear Cholla

Parissa A.
A Behavioral Investigation to Determine the Preference of Birds towards Specific Bird Foods

Radnika H.
The Affect of Water Quality on Water Life

Reed A.
Bird Nation in My Yard

Sahil C.
Beaver Construction

Samier M.
The Effect of Earthworms on Plants

Srishti K.
The Gray Birch Trees in Plainsboro Preserve: Healthy or Not?

Trevor P.
The Relationship between El Niño and La Niña and Storm Development in the Atlantic Basin

10th Grade

Alex V.
The Effect of Differently Shaped Windmill Blades in Wind Turbine Efficiency

Allison R.
To Help or to Hurt

Amanda K.
The Affect of Light on Goldfish Lifespan

Anne R.
A Study of Phosphorus Levels in the Waters of Northeastern Oklahoma

Caitlin B.
Dragonfly Location

Earnestiena C.
The Affects of Captivity on the behaviors of Gelada Baboons Theropithecus gelada

Emily A.
Bee Foraging: Energy, Expenditure and Interactions

Fedor M.
Anti-itch Mechanism Agents for Mosquito Bites

Helen L.
The Effect of Water Temperature on Betta Fish Growth

Jill W.
Managed Lakes vs. Non-managed Lakes

Kyle T.
Does Temperature Affect the Quality of Water?

Kylee A.
Water, It’s not What it Used to Be!

Kyung C.
Similarity of Thin, Passive Membranes to the Permeability of a Worm’s Skin

Lean B.
Determinants of Snow Density as Tools for Avalanche Predictions

Margaret N.
MFCs: The Future of Renewable Energy

Mary Eve I.
Sandhill Cranes of Bosque del Apache

Michelle Y.
Investigating Different Water Qualities on the Behavior of Scuds

Mikaela M.
A Rose Knows

Nathan T.
Variations in the Shin Oak

Pehalvi C.
The Effect of Different Types of Soil on Radish Growth

Purti P.
The Affect of Hydrogen Peroxide on a Plant’s Initial Growth Rate

Sarah M.
The Affect of Enzyme Amounts on the Anti-Fungal Properties of Cheese

Terri B.
A Microstructural Study of the San Gabriel Fault

 

11th Grade

Austin R.
PH’s Affect on Dissolved Oxygen Levels

Brian G.
Analyzing Rain in the NYC area for acids and Microbes

Collin R.
Affects of Wetland Vegetation on Water Temperature in Retention and Detention Basins

Helena H.
A Study with Birdfeeders

Jenifer B.
Identifying the Genetic Mechanisms Behind color Variation in Penstemon

Kana Y.
An Investigation into the True Memory Span of Goldfish

Mahkia C.
The Design, Construction and Testing of a Microbial Fuel Cell Using Nitrogen and Sugar-Enhanced Wastewater

Mark G.
The Effect of Proximity to a Drainage Culvert on soil Nitrogen Loss in a Cornfield

Pavel S.
Effect of Electromagnetic Fields on the Growth of Plants

Pooja K.
An Analysis and Comparison of Contamination in Well Water vs. State Administered Water

Tim G.
How Artificial Structures Create a Dependency in Ecosystems

12th Grade

Adam F.
Green Roofs: A Variable Stormwater Management Technology

Alan S.
Carbon Sinks to Carbon Sources: A Soil Analysis of the Colorado Mountain Pine Beetle Epidemic

Alyssa E.
Effects of Starvation on Wild Type and Adipose Drosophila melanogaster

Anthony I.
Investigating Causes of Sudden Wetland Dieback

Ben H.
A Split Plot Design for the Co-Optimization of Maximum Removal the Invasive Eurasian Phragmites autralis

Christie H.
A Comparative Study of the Mercury Content in the Bear, Jordan and Weber Rivers

Dylan Jared A.
An Unexpected Role for Picocyanobacterria in the Marine Silicon Cycle

Elena P.
The Impact of Urban Development on Wild Bee Populations in the Washington, D.C. Area

Eric C.
Biological Control of Invasive Soybean Aphid, Aphis glycines, through Apparent Competition

John C.
Development of an Environmentally Friendly Method for eradicating Invasive Japanese Knotweed

Katherine P.
Effects of Microbes and Sodium Chloride on CO₂ Flux into the Atmosphere from Decomposition of Plant Matter

Kelly A.
Effect of Triclosan Exposure on E. Coli’s ability to Develop Cross Resistance to Antibiotics

Lori Y.
Female Mating Patterns and Mate Quality in the Dengue Vector Mosquito, Aedes aegypti

Michaela C.
The Geritol Solution

Mikaela Z.
Trapping Oysters Before they Disappear

Nicholas H.
Census and Habitat Survey of Clemmys guttata, The Spotted Turtle, in NYS Genesee County Wetland

Sam M.
Vasoline, Lichen and What They Reveal About Air Quality

Samuel G.
Latitudinal Comparison of Forest Plant Traits in Wisconsin

Sarah Z.
The Effect of Bisphenol A. on the Development of Artemia