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 · 2019
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Objectives The purpose of this experiment was to determine 1) if wildfire smoke affected grapes grown in Lake County and 2) if this smoke affected people s opinions of fermented grape produc…
CSEF · 2019
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Objectives The purpose of my experiment was to determine if more air pollution particles were collected depending on locations and heights. I do believe that locations and heights will chang…
CSEF · 2019
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Objectives There have been multiple wildfires around the state of California in the past few years. I wanted to see if the ash from the wildfires affect the nutrient and pH levels of the soi…
CSEF · 2019
Earth & Environmental Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives We are studying Phytophthora ramorum, a water mold which is killing tanoaks and causing a foliar infection on Bay laurels in Santa Cruz County. Sudden Oak Death threatens the surv…
CSEF · 2019
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Objectives The objective of this project was to investigate the relationship between the slope of the seafloor and the inland travel of a simulated tsunami. Methods Used three identical wood…
CSEF · 2019
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Objectives We wanted to learn how different commercial building materials affect the contamination of rainwater. This project will help our community, nation, and world, because it will prov…
CSEF · 2019
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Objectives The problem of drought increase in severity leads to the conservation of water and the efficiency of water use in the garden. With this idea, I decided to test how the moisture of…
CSEF · 2019
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Objectives The objective of my project was to see what materials would last longer in wave erosion and prevent the least erosion. For this my hypothesis was that the sand and clay mixture wo…
CSEF · 2019
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Objectives Thousands of marine mammals have been killed by paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP), caused by consuming toxic shellfish. How did the shellfish get toxic? Research shows that it s…
CSEF · 2019
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Objectives The objective of this study is to see which surface, cement, grass, asphalt, and sand, will reflect the most amount of ultraviolet rays. Methods UV measuring beads, UV measuring p…
CSEF · 2019
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Objectives My objective was to determine if the retention time of the wastewater from the Arcata Wastewater Treatment Plant (AWTP) and the Eureka Wastewater Treatment Plant (EWTP) affected t…
CSEF · 2018
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals I was curious to see if the different north and south facing aspects in Lundy Canyon create substantially different temperatures and snow depths due to varying amounts of su…
CSEF · 2018
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to discover whether the ratio of 18O to 16O has changed in the atmosphere over time. Oxygen 18 is a stable isotope of oxygen, and the ratio o…
CSEF · 2018
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals This project answered 3 questions: (1) How accurate are the 10-day forecasts, for Walnut, CA and Boston, MA? (2) What cities have the most similar temperatures to Walnut and…
CSEF · 2018
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to determine if blocks of ice exposed to air with increasing levels of carbon dioxide will melt faster than a block of ice exposed to ai…
CSEF · 2018
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to determine if different soil densities affect evaporation rates. Methods/Materials In 4 tests, measured the weight of 4 types of soil (san…
CSEF · 2018
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Our project displays a simulation of a common rainfall in the San Joaquin Valley. The objective is to determine what rate common soils (sandy, silt, clay, and topsoil) found…
CSEF · 2018
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals About 31.4 million acres are irrigated with sprinkler systems. In addition, 26.2 million acres are irrigated with surface water. Surface water evaporation is a key reason fo…
CSEF · 2018
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I hypothesized that if I build a working seismograph that can measure seismic waves caused by ground movement, then the seismograph will be able to detect the nearby vibrati…
CSEF · 2018
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to show how acidity level is currently affecting plankton in the Monterey Bay. What I am hoping to accomplish is to spread a higher level of a…
CSEF · 2018
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is, first, to measure carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, and compare it to carbon dioxide levels taken at Mauna Loa. Second, the objective was to find co…
CSEF · 2018
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I put soil in 3 different containers and left one with just soil, another one with just pebbles, and the last one with weeds and grass because it had roots. I then poured wa…
CSEF · 2017
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals This project attempts to use a Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) system to detect the location of a gopher tunnel underground. The GPR sends electromagnetic waves into the grou…
CSEF · 2017
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to build a device that models earthquakes caused by fault slippage and determine the effect of fracking on the number and magnitude of earth…
CSEF · 2017
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to investigate if freshwater or saltwater around the Earth was becoming more acidic due to increased carbon emission produced by humans. M…
CSEF · 2017
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project was to examine the ways in which solar radiation affects the heat of two different surfaces, land and water. The purpose of my experiment was to ans…
CSEF · 2017
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to examine the effects of wind patterns on carbon dioxide concentrations by using data showing the effect of the Santa Ana winds on the…
CSEF · 2017
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals To determine and compare the different saturation points and absorption ability of three soil textures; sand, sandy loam, and clay. Methods/Materials Scale, oven, beakers, w…
CSEF · 2017
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to understand geological folding patterns of different earth materials while under the stress of lateral compression. I focused on contine…
CSEF · 2017
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My goal is to find the best way to alleviate liquefaction. Liquefaction is a property of soil where when it's saturated with water and it comes under stress, such as an eart…