ED026
Bright STaRS: Bright Students Training As Research Scientists I Posters

Thursday, 10 December 2020: 04:00-20:59
Primary Convener:  Jennifer Saltzman, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Convener:  Diana Lynne Ibarra, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States; Independent Schools Foundation Academy, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
Primary Liaison:  Jennifer Saltzman, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Chairs:  Diana Lynne Ibarra, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States and Jennifer Saltzman, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Diana Lynne Ibarra, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
 
Analysis of Object Movement in Mars InSight Camera Images (753521)
Zachary Lihn, Timothy Christian High School, Piscataway, NJ, United States and Peter J Chi, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth Planetary and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Contrail Formation in Southeastern Michigan with Potential Regional and Global Impacts (716912)
Noor Abu-Rus and Zaharaa Altwaij, Crestwood High School, Dearborn Heights, MI, United States
 
Long-term solar radiation patterns across the Contiguous United States (760517)
Linda Sun, Horace Greeley High School, Chappaqua, United States; Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, Chenghao Wang, Stanford University, Department of Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States and Zhihua Wang, Arizona State University, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Tempe, AZ, United States
 
The near-shore carbonates' relationship between ocean saline components and seashells growing and its investigating activities in the high school. (694724)
Ryo Nakamura, Miyagi Rifu high school, Geoscience, Rifu Town, Miyagi, Japan; Miyagi Rifu high school, Geoscience, Rifu, Miyagi, Japan and Hiroto Ichikawa, Miyagi Rifu high school, 11th grade student, Rifu town, Japan
 
On the influence and spread of pollutants from California wildfires (668820)
Jianting Wu, Harmony Plus, Palos Verdes Estates, CA, United States, Meng Chun Chen, Harmony Plus, Mountain View, CA, United States and Maha Alnajjar, Harmony Plus, Los Altos Hills, CA, United States
 
Leading Feedstocks for Cost-effective Cellulosic Ethanol Production: a Comparative Analysis (668825)
Junzhi Han1, Chengxuan Li1, Meng Chun Chen2 and Maha Alnajjar3, (1)Harmony Plus, Palo Alto, CA, United States, (2)Harmony Plus, Mountain View, CA, United States, (3)Harmony Plus, Los Altos Hills, CA, United States
 
Assessing Atmospheric Transport of Microplastics at a Global Scale Using the NASA GISS Model (716419)
Helen Lyons, Hunter College High School, New York, NY, United States, Kostas Tsigaridis, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States and Marco Tedesco, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States
 
DeepWaste: Applying Deep Learning to Waste Classification for a Sustainable Planet (717059)
Yash Narayan, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
 
Protecting Threatened, Endangered, or At Risk Shorebirds in Florida's Gulf Coast (742831)
Shamaria Jones, Dixon School of Arts and Sciences, Pensacola, FL, United States and Laila A Long, Dixon School of Arts and Sciences, Pensacola, United States
 
Orbital stability of compact four-planet systems (746772)
Bennet Outland1, Gretchen E Noble1, Andrew Wayne Smith2 and Jack Lissauer3, (1)Stevens High School, Rapid City, SD, United States, (2)Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom, (3)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States
 
Can a planet be Terraformed? (750812)
Makayla Flores1, Meitherese Dominguez2 and Valerie Munoz2, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States
 
How did the marine heatwaves of 2014 - 2016 and 2019 affect Pacific Mole Crabs in central California? (755699)
Chelle L Gentemann1, Leah Kalish2, Alessandr Richardson-Beatty2, Edgar Orozco3, Viva Voong3, Emma Chu3, Alyssa Bautista3, Alayah Densby3, Marisol Garcia-Reyes4 and Sebastien Bachar2, (1)Farallon Institute, Petaluma, CA, United States, (2)California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, United States, (3)California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, United States, (4)Farallon Group LLC, Petaluma, CA, United States
 
Quantifying the impact of dual-polarization weather radar measurements on predictions of rainfall rate (760462)
Brianna Han1, Laura Fierce2, Scott E Giangrande3, Die Wang3 and Robert L McGraw4, (1)Commack High School, Commack, NY, United States, (2)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental & Climate Sciences, Upton, NY, United States, (3)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States, (4)Brookhaven Lab, Upton, NY, United States
 
Potential Implications of Natural Disasters on Wolf Populations (761400)
Erika Yu, Harmony Plus, Pleasanton, CA, United States, Meng Chun Chen, Harmony Plus, Mountain View, CA, United States and Maha Alnajjar, Harmony Plus, Los Altos Hills, CA, United States
 
Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic On Air Quality in the United States (761792)
Zongren Zhang, Harmony Plus, St. Louis, MO, United States, Meng Chun Chen, Harmony Plus, Mountain View, CA, United States and Maha Alnajjar, Harmony Plus, Los Altos Hills, CA, United States
 
Water mass characterization and Chlorophyll concentrations in southern Monterey Bay, CA (761989)
Yunci Sun, Harmony Plus, Beijing, China, Meng Chun Chen, Harmony Plus, Mountain View, CA, United States, Maha Alnajjar, Harmony Plus, Los Altos Hills, CA, United States, Stephen G Monismith, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Amatzia Genin, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Inter-university Institute for Marine Sciences, Eilat, Israel and Jeffrey R Koseff, Stanford University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States
 
Studying Monarchs In Coastal Florida (762576)
Jayla Brown, Dixon School of the Arts and Sciences, Pensacola, FL, United States; Tate High School, Pensacola, FL, United States
 
High Lead (Pb) Levels in East Oakland, California Parks: An Indicator of Environmental Injustice in the San Francisco Bay Area (764458)
Allison McCabe1, Gunit Kaur1, Yi Luo2, Riya Puvvada2, Arjun Krishnan2, Arnav Kushwah2, Laura Boifort2, Sarah Park2, Raphael Barboza2 and Julia Schweitzer2, (1)East Bay Academy for Young Scientists (EBAYS), Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Participant, Oakland, United States
 
Analyzing the Surfactant Effect on Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN) Activity Using a Particle-Resolved Aerosol Model (767927)
Josh De Leeuw, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, United States, Laura Fierce, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States, Josh De Leeuw, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States and Robert L McGraw, Brookhaven Lab, Upton, NY, United States
 
The Future of the Human Race (772063)
Enrique Morales, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
 
A Two Year Study on Plastics in Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties (774681)
Angel Sessions, Dixon School of the Arts and Sciences, Pensacola, FL, United States
 
Comparing different methods for measurement of geothermal heat flux in East Antarctica (775224)
Chinmay Murthy1, Jamin Stevens Greenbaum2, Duncan A Young2 and Donald D Blankenship2, (1)University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG), Austin, TX, United States, (2)University of Texas, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States
 
Developing & Testing Method for Isolating Rapid Degrading PVOH Microbes (669904)
Clarissa Manyan Choi, The ISF Academy, Hong Kong, China
 
Air Quality in New York city for the past few years and during Covid lock down (730132)
Yue Tang, Queensborough Community College, Bayside, NY, United States and Paramita Sen, CUNY Bronx Community College, Chemistry, Bronx, NY, United States
 
Air Quality with a Special Emphasis on PM2.5: A Case Study of Delhi and Mumbai (730533)
Navjot Kaur and Paramita Sen, CUNY Bronx Community College, Chemistry, Bronx, NY, United States
 
 
An Assessment of the Role Urban Trees Play in Modifying Weather in a City Park (687430)
Zaher Damen1, Mohamedhussin Najaf2 and Anas Saleh2, (1)Crestwood High School, Dearborn Heights, MI, United States, (2)Crestwood High School, Dearborn Heights, United States
 
Analyzing Earth’s Processes for Space Exploration: Carrying our Knowledge of Life Beyond Earth (711733)
Lochana Kalyanaraman and Angelina Guzman, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
 
Analyzing Online Patient-EKG Data Sets: A Novel Approach for the Early Detection of Heart Disease (678847)
Snikitha Banda, Notre Dame High School, San Jose, CA, United States
 
Hot Data: Global warming research in the big-data era using intelligent data exploration and analysis: A case study investigating the Earth System Response to Future Polar Amplification in a GFDL Earth System Model (676349)
Rebecca Monge, NOAA GFDL Princeton, Carmel, NY, United States, Aparna Radhakrishnan, NOAA Princeton, Princeton, NJ, United States and Lori Thompson Sentman, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab, Princeton, NJ, United States
 
Application of Deep Learning Techniques to Ice Sheet Surface and Bed Interface Detection (714855)
Miguel Liu-Schiaffini1, Gregory Ng1, Anja Rutishauser1, Dillon Buhl1, Jamin Stevens Greenbaum2 and Duncan A Young1, (1)University of Texas, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
Biodegradation of Polyethylene Fragments and Microbeads using Bacillus subtilis and Pseudomonas putida (673131)
Nithika Karthikeyan, Notre Dame High School, San Jose, CA, United States
 
Calcium Isotopes in Stalagmites as a Quantitative Precipitation Proxy for Comparison to Instrumental Records (686774)
Annie Stewart1, Elli Ronay1, Andrea M Erhardt2 and Jessica Leigh Oster3, (1)Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States, (2)University of Kentucky, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lexington, KY, United States, (3)Vanderbilt University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Nashville, TN, United States
 
Catalog of Black Holes (695305)
Ada Liu, Robert F. Kennedy Community High School, Queens, NY, United States and Ariane Katrina Marchese, Columbia University of New York, New York, NY, United States
 
Chemistry of Long Island Sound (736704)
Joshua Y Tsai, Queensborough Community College, Bayside, NY, United States, Vicky Chan, QCC, Oakland Gardens, NY, United States and Shah Nabil, Stuyvesant HS, New York, NY, United States
 
Conceptual Design of A Martian Reconnaissance Glider (699088)
Joseph Chai, Hunter College, Oakland Gardens, NY, United States and Brian Conlon, CUNY Hunter College, New York, United States
 
Coronal Mass Ejections (697713)
Amira Ravshanova, The Beacon School, New York, NY, United States and Ariane Katrina Marchese, Columbia University of New York, New York, NY, United States
 
Evaluation of the Ambient Water Quality Along the Historical Wah Fu Waterfall, Hong Kong (669094)
Trinity Elizabeth Hay Yee Yiu, The ISF Academy, Hong Kong, China
 
Greenhouse Gas Monitoring in New York City (730833)
Ashiqur Rahim, Queensborough Community College, Bayside, United States and Paramita Sen, CUNY Bronx Community College, Chemistry, Bronx, NY, United States
 
Hurricanes: The Atlantic Coast (737222)
Noora Abdulla, Oakland Gardens, NY, United States and Brian Conlon, CUNY Hunter College, New York, United States
 
Identifying Driving Factors of Extinction and Body Size for Molluscs During the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction (698410)
Adarsh Ambati1, Ilinca M Flacau1, Addy V Ngo1, Pedro Monarrez1,2, Michael Pimentel-Galvan1,2, Noel A Heim3 and Jonathan Payne1,2, (1)Stanford University, Stanford Earth Young Investigators, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Department of Geological Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, (3)Tufts University, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Medford, MA, United States
 
Improvement of Atmospheric Pollution in the Capital Cities of US during COVID-19 (688721)
Ritvik Mishra, Cosumnes Oaks High School, Elk Grove, CA, United States, Ramesh Singh, Chapman University, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Orange, CA, United States, Nrusingha Mishra, Trinity Technology Group Inc., Sacramento, United States and Rozalin Mishra, Placer County, Department of Environmental Engineering and Utilities, Auburn, CA, United States
 
Jellyfish, The Indicators of the Ocean (676078)
Zanaya Chase1, Aiyana D Dixon1 and Meya Dunn2, (1)Dixon School of the Arts and Sciences, Pensacola, FL, United States, (2)Dixon school of arts and sciences, Pensacola, United States
 
Measuring Cosmic Rays and their Effect on the Atmosphere (694861)
Victoria Kourkoutis, World Journalism Preparatory School, Queens, NY, United States and Ariane Katrina Marchese, Columbia University of New York, New York, NY, United States
 
One week in the Kiel Fjord - Minute-by-minute temperature and pressure measurements in a southwestern Baltic Sea inlet (670022)
Jessica Voss, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany and Marie Biethahn, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
 
Ozone and Bromine Oxide Observations from the Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite during the 2020 Arctic Ozone Hole (684762)
Veer Gadodia1, Gonzalo Gonzalez Abad2 and Kelly Chance2, (1)Newton North High School, Newton, MA, United States, (2)Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
Predicting Factors which Impact the Urban Heat Island Index in Cities Across the USA (678535)
Ridhima Singh, Farragut High School, Knoxville, TN, United States
 
Predicting HIV Protease Cleavage Sites using Neural Networks (679268)
Rupali Batta, Notre Dame High School, San Jose, CA, United States
 
Reducing Carbon Footprints Through a Novel Approach to Bicyclist Safety Using an Applied Arduino Sensory Network (713809)
Atreyi Leela Mukherjee, Notre Dame High School, San Jose, CA, United States
 
Squids, Snails, and Shellfish: How Oxygen Affected Molluscan Body Size in the Ordovician (702134)
Jonathan Chen1, Jackson Gosler1, Emma Klemperer1, Pedro Monarrez1,2, Michael Pimentel-Galvan1,2, Noel A Heim3 and Jonathan Payne1,2, (1)Stanford University, Stanford Earth Young Investigators, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Department of Geological Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, (3)Tufts University, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Medford, MA, United States
 
Statistical and Cellular Analysis of Rhizopus stolonifer Growth as Affected by Potassium Sorbate Concentration (668518)
Jocelyn Swift, Notre Dame High School, San Jose, CA, United States
 
Terraforming Exoplanets (684757)
Krystal Jones1, Kate Sullivan1, Jesus Mayen1, Jayde Stewart1, Nikki Dargahi1, Olasunkanmi Agunbiade1 and GeoHouse, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
 
Testing the Relationship of Brachiopod Body Size and Oxygen Levels during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction (700718)
Rishi Jain1, Kei Matsumoto1, Raymond Tran1, Pedro Monarrez1,2, Michael Pimentel-Galvan1,2, Noel A Heim3 and Jonathan Payne1,2, (1)Stanford University, Stanford Earth Young Investigators, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Department of Geological Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, (3)Tufts University, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Medford, MA, United States
 
Testing the Relationship of Brachiopoda Generic Richness, Origination, and Body Size During the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (699285)
Aruna Gauba1, Hannah McGoran1, Angelica Wang1, Pedro Monarrez1,2, Michael Pimentel-Galvan1,2, Joshua B. Zimmt3, Noel A Heim4 and Jonathan Payne1,2, (1)Stanford University, Stanford Earth Young Investigators, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Department of Geological Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, (3)University of California Berkeley, Department of Integrative Biology, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Tufts University, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Medford, MA, United States
 
The Effect of the North Atlantic Plastic Patch on Hurricanes (731924)
Benjamin Botnik, Oakland Gardens, NY, United States and Brian Conlon, CUNY Hunter College, New York, United States
 
The effect of varying carbon dioxide levels on C3 and C4 grasses (695718)
Julia Castellano, United States
 
The Effects of Different Coastal Substrates on the Filtration of Surface Runoff into Bodies of Water (678142)
Aivan Durfee, Narragansett High School, Narragansett, RI, United States
 
The Efficiency Dilemma in the Intensifying Crop Production System Around the World (717751)
Xushu Wang1, Meige Yang1, Xin Zhang2,3 and Cassie Doty3, (1)High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China, Beijing, China, (2)Princeton University, Princeton, MD, United States, (3)University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Appalachian Laboratory, Frostburg, MD, United States
 
The Short-Term Effects of Carbon Dioxide on the Cellular Respiration of Ipomoea Batatas (Sweet Potato) (669669)
Isabel Vargas-Hurlston, Notre Dame High School, San Jose, CA, United States
 
Using Aeropod Technology to Interpret Select Microscale WeatherParameters Using Vertical Profiling (683032)
Nazih Baydoun, Crestwood High School, Dearborn Heights, MI, United States, Hassan Berry, Crestwood High School, Dearborn Heights, MI, UNITED STATES and Belal M Beydoun, Crestwood High School, Dearborn Heights, United States
 
X-Ray Reflectometry Analysis of Platinum Thin Film Properties deposited in E-beam Deposition Systems (675577)
Kyle Wu, Maria Carrillo High School, Santa Rosa, CA, United States
 
How can ISF Academy Save Energy Consumption by Implementing Window Films? (666816)
Hajime Hosono, The ISF Academy, Hong Kong, China
 
How do We Reduce the Heat Loss from the Surface of the School Swimming Pool? (666822)
May Lee Proctor, The ISF Academy, Hong Kong, China
 
Study of Sediment in Hong Kong Waters for Heavy Metals and Bacteria using an ROV (666865)
Fei Jamie Au Yeung, The ISF Academy, Hong Kong, China
 
An Investigation of Cellulolytic Bacteria from Kimchi (666890)
Tsz Hin Chloe Lee, The ISF Academy, Hong Kong, China
 
 
Tensile Strength and Hydrophobic Effect of Starch-Based Biodegradable Polymers (667153)
Joyce Yang, Notre Dame High School, San Jose, CA, United States
 
Designing a Visual Fire-Predicting Algorithm for U.S. Counties Using Weather Datasets (663551)
Namrata Nair, Notre Dame High School, San Jose, CA, United States
 
Comparing the Effects of Precipitation and Select Water Quality Parameters in Two Different Suburban Watersheds (664818)
Haneen Fouani and Zeinab Awada, Crestwood High School, Dearborn Heights, MI, United States
 
What are Some Possible Solutions to Reduce Waste Streams From School Uniforms in Hong Kong? (665465)
William Tristan Lee III, The ISF Academy, Hong Kong, China
 
What are the Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria that can be Found in Cat Faeces? (665580)
Irwin Shing Hei Sung, The ISF Academy, Hong Kong, China
 
 
How Effective is Thermal Evaporation in Growing ZnO Nanowires on Construction Materials? (665587)
Eric Yancheng Jiang, The ISF Academy, Hong Kong, China
 
 
Isolation and Genomic Characterisation of Toluene-Degrading Bacteria (665608)
Ching Him Angus Wai, The ISF Academy, Hong Kong, China
 
Are Antibacterial Peptides In Fermented Foods a Possible Source of New Antibiotics? (665622)
Lok Yi Li, The ISF Academy, Hong Kong, China
 
Identification and Analysis of Annual Cycles of Phytoplankton in the Kiel Fjord (Baltic Sea): Who is Playing and by Which Rules? (665642)
Felicitas Schliese, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
 
Does the Geographical Location of Hong Kong Beaches Affect the Amount of Microplastics Present? (665647)
Douglas Chung Leung, The ISF Academy, Hong Kong, China
 
How to Redesign the Center for Renewable Energy Education Wind Turbine? (665692)
Maddalena Di Salvo, The ISF Academy, Hong Kong, China
 
Stochastic Capacity Loss and Remaining Useful Life Models for Lithium-ion Batteries in Electric Vehicles (665889)
Andrew Chu, Anirudh Allam and Simona Onori, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
 
The Effects of Native Tree Species on Ambient Air and Surface Temperatures in Southeastern Michigan (666785)
Ititdal Bazzi and Zeina Jebara, Crestwood High School, Dearborn Heights, MI, United States
 
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