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.
AJAS · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
The purpose of our experiment was to use the information and core samples we had to impact the ongoing discussion of what caused the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) that happened aro…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences First Award
Developing countries often have poor monitoring and reporting of weather and crop health, leading to slow responses to droughts and food shortages. Here, new satellite data analysis tools we…
AJAS · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
Inhibitors of multixenobiotic resistance (MXR), a mechanism that protects aquatic organisms from pollutants, pose a danger to biological and ecological health. Inhibitors target individual p…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Microplastics consist of small plastic particles in commercial products as well as plastics that degrade in the environment. Microplastic pollution is of growing concern because microplastic…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
In 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster released a considerable amount of radioactive materials into the environment. In the time after the disaster, the government had a deficit of…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Having grown up in rural Australia, we are acutely aware of water’s importance in agriculture. In our rural area it’s common to go weeks or even months without rain. For this reason we are f…
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…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In order to find a cost-efficient alternative method to treat Groundwater Under the Direct Influence of Surface Water (GUDI) wells, an experiment was conducted to implement an alternative wa…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Wildfires have become increasingly frequent and severe due to global climatic change, demanding improved methodologies for wildfire modeling. Traditionally, wildfires are assessed through po…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
During a year plants provide large amounts of matter full of cellulose. The biggest part of matter can be found in the crops, leaves and grass. People do not use this matter enough and even…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This takes place in the Samoan Islands, located in the South Pacific Ocean.I have been working on finding this underwater vent for 8 months, and it has involved so much of my time and resour…
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…
AJAS · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
Human activities have led to an unprecedented loss of freshwater species, thereby impairing ecosystem function. Novel analyses are necessary to create conservation strategies. For example, G…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The increasing usage of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) in consumer and antibacterial products without regulation raises concerns about their environmental toxicity. Silver nanospheres have bee…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Currently, the only sinkhole detection technique is by interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR), which is both costly and inefficient. This project aims to provide more efficient sin…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Plastic pollution is a global issue threatening the health of marine and land ecosystems. Smaller "microplastics" (<5mm) are particularly problematic as they can be consumed by marine creatu…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Before dams were built on the Columbia and Snake rivers, thousands of Sockeye Salmon would migrate from the Pacific Ocean to their breeding grounds at Redfish Lake in central Idaho. Now that…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Pesticide runoff is a major challenge facing the agricultural and landscape industries today. The vast majority of sprayed pesticides end up in an environment other than their intended desti…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences First Award
Every year, devastating wildfires cause substantial environmental and economic damage all around the world. In most cases, firefighters are unable to identify wildfires until the flames grow…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fish is an essential and traditional element in the diet of many people in the Caribbean (Ricketts, 2016). However, some species have high concentration of Mercury (Hg), representing an incr…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Chemical differences between fossils of different species, environments, or time periods reveal information about prehistoric habitats, climate, environmental change and specimen origin. Lit…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Leatherback sea turtles are a critically endangered species in the eastern Pacific, especially due to climate change. When sand temperatures increase above 29.5 degrees Celsius, the hatchlin…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Throughout the world’s aquatic ecosystems, governments have established marine protected areas (MPAs) to protect sensitive marine environments. This study explored the use of baited remote u…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The goal of this project is to describe the differences in macroinvertebrate species quantities, biomass, water quality, and dorsal brightness of plecoptera on several locations in the Alamo…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
What is aquaponics? This is a question that not enough people know the answer to. The word aquaponics was created by combining the words "aquaculture" and "hydroponics". It's not only the co…
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…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Ecological light pollution implicates physiological disruption to individual organisms and the ecosystem structure as a whole particularly with the involvement of keystone species. The major…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Purpose: The purpose of this experiment is to investigate the effect of 4-Methylcyclohexanemethanol (a coal cleaning agent) on the population change in Daphnia Magna. Procedure: The Daphnia…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this research project was to study the effect of three different concentrations of atrazine (AAtrex 4L) on the germination rate of Raphanus sativus 'Champion'. The hypothesis…