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 · 2026
Earth & Environmental Sciences (Track 2) (Junior Division) Honorable_mention Award
Wildfires can alter soil properties, making soils water-repellent and increasing the risk of flooding, erosion and long-term land degradation. This experiment examined how different soil tre…
CSEF · 2026
Earth & Environmental Sciences (Junior Division)
Abstract Hydrogels are used worldwide to conserve water in agricultural practices. They are utilized across distinct geographic regions, including India, the United States, the Middle East,…
AJAS · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
Ozone is a key protective layer of the atmosphere. However, when it reaches ground level, it can be detrimental to human health and has been associated with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Dis…
ISEF · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The Maumee River is the largest tributary of Lake Erie in the Great Lakes watershed. The objective was to identify the presence of microplastics in the Maumee River and two of its tributarie…
ISEF · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Microplastics in waterways are becoming an ever-increasing problem for the natural world and for humans as well. It is important to find ways to remove microplastics effectively. Ferrofluids…
CSEF · 2026
Earth & Environmental Sciences (Track 2) (Junior Division)
I got my project idea when I experienced a lunar eclipse. That day I was around the beach area looking at the waves in the ocean. And that was what sparked my curiosity! I started to wonder…
ISEF · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In late July 2024, cyclone “Kirsty” caused exceptionally intense rainfall in central Latvia, resulting in severe flooding and record-breaking precipitation totals for Latvia. This study inve…
AJAS · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
Climate change has significantly increased global wildfire frequency and impact, making it a critical humanitarian crisis, particularly in dry climates. To address this challenge, we propose…
ISEF · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences
My project is a Chesapeake Bay case study simulation built using an existing Lagrangian tracking model, driven by real National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) current and wind da…
ISEF · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Oil spills are among the most serious environmental threats. They remain difficult to control, and current remediation methods either disperse oil into water or use chemically aggressive tre…
CSEF · 2026
Earth & Environmental Sciences (Track 2) (Junior Division) Honorable_mention Award
On June 13, 2025 a fire swept through an open space area near our homes. This caught our interest, and we decided to investigate. We hypothesized the plants which repopulated the burned regi…
CSEF · 2026
Earth & Environmental Sciences(Senior Division) Third Award
Ants, given their size, function as ecosystem engineers, which are critically essential to almost all terrestrial environments. However, whether intraspecific and interspecific conflict amon…
ISEF · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences First Award
It's been hypothesized that carbonaceous chondrite meteorites can transport compounds crucial to planetary habitability. Meteorites generate hydrothermal systems through impact energy dissip…
CSEF · 2026
Earth & Environmental Sciences (Junior Division)
Problem: Microplastic pollution requires effective removal methods. This project tested whether combining ferrofluid magnetic separation and ultrasonic filtration removes PETE from ocean wat…
ISEF · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Known as the “rainforests of the sea” coral reefs support over 1 billion people. Yet the rising ocean temperatures have driven increasingly frequent coral bleaching events, threatening reefs…
ISEF · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences
According to UNEP, Sand is the most mined solid natural resource in the world, with up to 50 billion tons used annually. This high demand results in unmonitored illegal mining. It is a $350…
CSEF · 2026
Earth & Environmental Sciences(Senior Division) Honorable_mention Award
This project aims to use drone-based aerial imaging to implement an Artificial Intelligence model to detect and map pampas grass on a large scale. To experiment, I went to the field and coll…
ISEF · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Nitrobenzene is a potential carcinogen, highly flammable, and toxic environmental pollutant in air, water, and soil that is commonly synthesized in pesticide, dye, and explosives manufacturi…
CSEF · 2026
Earth & Environmental Sciences (Junior Division)
The purpose of my project is to discover if mineral oil, olive oil, soybean oil, or just water works best to extract microplastics using ferrofluid extraction. For my hypothesis, I believe t…
ISEF · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This experiment focuses on the effectiveness of metal oxide nanoparticle infused biochar in adsorbing heavy metals (Pb and Cd) from simulated runoff. The basis of this experiment is the surf…
ISEF · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Methane (CH4) emissions from flooded rice paddies are a major contributor to agricultural greenhouse gases, driven by the anaerobic activity of methanogenic archaea in soil environments. Red…
ISEF · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This study investigated Martian soil and different way to enhance the soil for plants to grow on Mars because the soil on this planet is not able to support life let alone grow food. I teste…
CSEF · 2026
Earth & Environmental Sciences (Track 2) (Junior Division)
Global warming is a current, growing problem affecting all our lives. My science fair project discovers what happens to mollusk shells when oceans become more acidic due to global warming, a…
CSEF · 2026
Earth & Environmental Sciences(Senior Division)
Harmful algal blooms cause over $1 billion in damages annually, and microplastics compound this threat by transporting toxins, fostering algal biofilms, and accelerating cyanobacteria growth…
ISEF · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences
There is a critical global need to develop effective methods for monitoring and assessing damage to urbanized landscapes under conditions of active hostilities. Moshchun village in Kyiv Obla…
CSEF · 2026
Earth & Environmental Sciences (Junior Division)
Abstract My experiment helps people understand that you can filter water with resources from a mountain but it will not be clean enough to be drinkable. For my experiment I filtered dirty wa…
CSEF · 2026
Earth & Environmental Sciences(Senior Division)
Plastic nurdles—small industrial plastic pellets used in manufacturing—are a major yet under-monitored source of global microplastic pollution. An estimated 445,970 metric tons of nurdles en…
ISEF · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Prescribed burning and mechanical thinning are forest treatments commonly used to alter forest structures for wildfire mitigation. In 2001, the National Fire and Fire-Surrogate (FSS) Study e…
CSEF · 2026
Earth & Environmental Sciences (Junior Division) Fourth Award
Microplastic pollution, an immense environmental issue that has affected our world for decades, has impacted humans, organisms, and even whole ecosystems. One way to address this problem is…
CSEF · 2026
Earth & Environmental Sciences (Junior Division) Third Award
To combat drought, runoff, and costly, synthetic commercial hydrogels, this project evaluates whether hydrogels derived from fruit waste, banana peels, orange peels, and apple pomace, serve…