38,465 real projects from ISEF, the Canada-Wide Science Fair, JSHS, AJAS, the Calgary Youth Science Fair and the California Science & Engineering Fair — searchable by meaning, and filterable by fair, year, category and award.
CSEF · 2008
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to find out if the surface area and volume of a tide pool affect the temperature and pH and how much the temperature and pH of a tide pool ch…
CSEF · 2008
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my science project is to determine which type of irrigation benefits different types of soils. The reason I am doing this investigation is to help farmers or…
CSEF · 2008
Earth & Planetary Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to examine the properties of soils around the UC Davis area and to create methods and materials which will aid in the prevention of forest…
CSEF · 2008
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals This project was to determine the percent increase of solar radiation absorbed by the earth's surface when man alters: A coniferous forest into a grassland. (Process #1) A g…
CSEF · 2008
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective was to see if wind, air temperature, humidity, surface area would effect evaporation in different ways. Methods/Materials For surface area, first measure 200 m…
CSEF · 2008
Earth & Planetary Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals The main goal of our project was to identify factors that have adversely impacted the Alder Creek Watershed, the salmonid habitat, the demise of the local steelhead populati…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals I wanted to see whether it is the air pressure or the elevation that decreases the boiling point of water as elevation increases. My hypothesis was that it is the air pressu…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project was to determine the arsenic content of water in Sherwood Valley, California. Methods/Materials Five different water samples were collected from the S…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals My project determines whether recent warming in the Earth#s atmosphere could be due to random climatic variability while also showing how carbon dioxide affects atmospheric…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals To identify where the pollutants are coming from and what the major time and space patterns of beach pollution are in Orange County. I set up three hypotheses, 1) Surface wa…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals Impact cratering is the most important process affecting the surfaces of solid bodies in the Solar System. Though the physics of the impact process are characterized, its ch…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine how the following weather conditions affect cloud formation: variations of humidity, temperature, air pressure and nucleation. My hypothesis is…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if common sea floor materials will decrease wave height. Methods/Materials Making a wave box with plastic cardboards and filling it up with wat…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals My science fair project is to see which erosion control blanket changes the pH of soil the most. Methods/Materials For my experiment I went around my yard gathering dirt. Th…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of my experiment was to measure the damage that a simulated earthquake causes on different land types and varying forces using a scale loosley based on the Mercalli…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of my research is to obtain a better understanding of the environment during the Eocene epoch through analysis of the plant and insect fossils I discovered during e…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals This experiment will identify the major pollutants and possibly pinpoint their source. They will also show the conditions of our so-called 'preserved' urban waterways. Metho…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The primary goal was to determine salinity around San Francisco Bay estuary according to location and before and after rainfalls. Secondary goals were to see if relative sal…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The intent of our project was to determine the sources of energy in Saturn#s rings by writing programs to compute and analyze their temperatures. Methods/Materials We wrote…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment was to observe carbon dioxide as an essential contributor to global warming, and to accurately model how in the near future, the amount of carbo…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project was to determine the quality of the water entering the Compton Creek from sub-watersheds and how the water from these sub-watersheds differ in their…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals I am doing my project to see how gas stations affect the soil, and environment around them. I am also doing this to get a better understanding of the environmental problems…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to find out what type of soil houses should be built on. The project demonstrates how well a sand/soil can withstand a certain amount of we…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The Sunda megathrust fault off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia has experienced big earthquakes in recent history. The section of the megathrust south of these ruptures,…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to find a mathematical equation to predict earth's long term temperature variations. With this information, I can find out if the earth'…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals Out of all the bodies in our solar system only one, Earth, has active plate tectonics. It is not known for certain what drives the system. Some believe that convection curre…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals This study examined the possible correlation between sunspot number and the deflection component of the Earth's magnetic field. In the first year, sunspot measurements were…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals Problem: What is the origin of the aplitic dikes present in the Half Dome Granodiorite? Hypothesis: I believe that the aplitic dikes result from the squeezing of silicic mel…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals To discover whether ground vibration waves travel faster uphill or downhil. Methods/Materials Materials: Oscilloscope, laptop computer, log, vibration sensors, cables, tape-…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals The analyst completed in 2005 a study of 3d seismic and well data in the Sacramento basin that revealed a subsurface, circular, ~5500-m-diameter feature, which is buried 1,4…