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.
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Wildfires pose severe health and ecological consequences. In 2021 alone, 58,968 wildfires burned 7.1 million acres across the United States. Large wildfires (> 300 acres) in the United State…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Purpose: This research explored if soil saturation contributes to the formation of sinkholes. This research also investigated if Khutsong households are at risks of new sinkholes. Method: Th…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This project demonstrates how carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is contributing to ocean acidification and coral bleaching. Through the course of a 4 year continuation on this project, this y…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Coal ash is produced from burning coal and has accumulated for years in piles and landfill pits. Coal ash contains toxins like lead, arsenic, lithium, selenium and cadmium (Gopinathan, et al…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This work presents the first study that examines the runoff of the herbicide, paraquat, and how it flows through the environment. Paraquat is a highly toxic herbicide that is widely used and…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Accurate weather predictions are crucial to infrastructure, economic security, and disaster prevention. Short-range hourly temperature forecasting has been the purview of statistical numeric…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Our project brings out a a safer, invulnerable, modern system that prevents water from freezing when temperature decreases and can later on be safely consumed by the human body. As to how we…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In this project, due to the fact that cultivation in a cultivator consumed a lot of energy, it was proposed that natural growth in the form of moor renaturation would be more efficient. Conv…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Limu (seaweed) is critical to Native Hawaiian ecosystems and culture. With limited prior research, the first part of this study examined the effects of ZnO mineral sunscreens on endemic Hawa…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations of both carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) are increasing at a decennial rate of +34 parts per million for CO2 and +70 parts per billion for CH4…
CSEF · 2023
Earth & Environmental Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Soil, the most extensive living system on this planet, contains billions of organisms within a few square inches. Each microbe works to sustain the lives of plants, supporting other lives, a…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
As temperatures near 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times, scientists warn that the Earth will start seeing some of the most catastrophic effects of climate change. News headlines…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Particulate matter (PM) is one of the biggest factors endangering human health, which leads to millions of premature deaths. Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) is an aerosol formed by multiple…
CSEF · 2023
Earth & Environmental Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Obtaining clean water over the past century has become increasingly difficult due to climate change, drought, and overpopulation. This project aimed to uncover cost-efficient methods to puri…
CSEF · 2023
Earth & Environmental Sciences First Award
Due to the inefficiencies of silicon solar cells, scientists developed perovskite solar cells that are 20% more effective. Unfortunately, they are environmentally harmful and contain lead io…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This experiment was designed to identify a correlation between mycorrhizae fungal inoculation, hugelkultur systems, and agricultural productivity. The alternative hypothesis, that a correlat…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this project was to create a device that is able to extract and collect water particles from the air and be able to turn it into drinkable water. After creating a device the e…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Understanding the characteristics of rainfall is important in addressing challenges that affect agriculture and climate change. This study examines the feasibility of using rainwater as a wa…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Mangroves are increasingly facing threats from human activities. These coastline shrubs create ecosystems by oxygenating the water and collecting sediment, cleaning the water and creating a…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Erosion continues to be an increasingly dire issue in coastal regions like Hawaii. This experiment aimed to decide which of the different types of barriers was tested to see if a particular…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this experiment is to determine if Neodymium Magnets will affect the regeneration of planaria. It is hypothesized that the Neodymium magnets with 42N and pull strength of 7.32…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Nitrogen is one of two of the biggest contributing factors to the hypoxia zone in the Gulf of Mexico. These nutrients cause excessive algal growth which depletes the oxygen from the water ul…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
As humans gain an increasing reliance on environmentally harmful devices such as cars and factories, organisms in the ocean experience life-altering adversity. To decrease the significance o…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Purpose of the Project Humans need water for everyday life such as cooking, to grow food, for the manufacturing of goods and sanitation. South Africa is classified as a water-stressed countr…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The overuse of chemical fertilizers causes eutrophication, which can damage aquatic ecosystems; I set out to determine whether alternatives to chemical fertilizers could decrease nitrate, ni…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Liquid household products that are thrown down the drain and into bodies of water may threaten aquatic life, especially organisms like Daphnia magna. Understanding said household products an…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this experiment was to determine if the aquatic plants Lemna minor, Elodea, or Pistia stratiotes affected the levels of nitrates and phosphates in polluted waters. Determining…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This experiment examines the effects bio plastics made from Kentucky Bluegrass seeds have on deforested ecosystems viability. Species are being eradicated due to deforestation, and are unabl…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Trihalomethanes (THM) are cancer group B, EPA-regulated disinfectant byproducts of chlorine-treated water. A survey of Fulton County, OH public school districts supplied by surface water con…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Contaminants of concern such as Malathion (an organophosphate insecticide) pose incredibly dangerous risks to humans and many species vital to their ecosystems. The EPA reports that 97% of p…