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 · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This research is to examine the directivity and the rupture direction of the 2016 M6.6 Meinong Earthquake by comparing spectrums of different directions from the epicenter. The seismic wavef…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Water bodies are life lines of cities. However, water quality has become a global issue. Bangalore has become one of its victims. Bangalore was once called the “city of lakes”. “Records show…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
“Clean, accessible water for all” is one of the United Nations’ sustainable development goals. Electrocoagulation(EC), a form of decontamination using electricity, can help meet this goal fo…
AJAS · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
To gain insight into the effect that gasoline contamination and ethanol flushing (a means of counteracting gasoline contamination) have on freshwater microorganisms, research on the physiolo…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Non-biodegradable products such as Styrofoam can be extremely dangerous to the environment. Certain types of larvae are able to consume plastics, such as Styrofoam. I decided to alter the St…
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…
AJAS · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
Febreze is a brand of air fresheners and is marketed by Proctor and Gamble with world sales exceeding 1 billion dollars in 2011. In a 2009 study conducted by the Environmental Working Group,…
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…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The development of this work was carried out in the forests of Panama in the community of Ustupu to determine the biodiversity of insects that are attracted with colorful dishes and in this…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Mangrove forest provides unique ecosystem and nursery for aquatic animals, along with sediment trapping and coastal erosion prevention. Since deforestation has been a major problem for mangr…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
This second-year study explored how an active tropical moisture season affected the dynamics of the phytoplankton populations of Estero Bay. The hypothesis states that as an active tropical…
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…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Satellite remote sensing of ocean color provides a synoptic view of global oceans, and has greatly improved our understanding of marine ecosystem productivity and the ocean’s role in Earth’s…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This project is an engineering/botany project. Everything is hand-constructed in the biome. There are integrated systems to regulate water chemistry for optimum fish and plant health. The sy…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Microplastics are small plastic particles that are generally less than 5 mm in diameter and can come from cosmetics, clothing, weathered and degraded plastic, and more. There has been growin…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Microplastics are an increasingly problematic aspect of plastic pollution with an estimated 83% presence in tap water worldwide. Microplastics are under 5 mm in size and circulate oceans, ha…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2 NPs) are an abundant heavy metal stressor frequently discharged as industrial effluent. There has been little research on the effect of TiO2 NPs on aquat…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Due to increase in transport workload in the water area, cases when oily substances get into the sea have become more frequent. Since the problem of spills is actual these days and it is of…
AJAS · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
The objectives of this study were to determine the general response of vegetation to drought conditions; to test whether moisture deficiency was the limiting factor for vegetation growth in…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
The cost of damage caused by hurricanes in 2017 is estimated to be over 200 billion dollars. Quick and accurate prediction of the path of a hurricane and its strength would be very valuable…
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…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Pharmaceuticals and personal care products(PPCPs) are aquatic contaminants that have been detected in surface water globally. However, their aquatic toxicity, especially in complex mixtures,…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Today’s farmers must be innovative and cautiously smart with the way that the markets are continuing to trend. They must figure out how cost may be eliminated, what they can do to increase p…
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…