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 Fourth Award
Little is known about the potential effects of “GenX’s” release into the Cape Fear River Basin. As stated by Rachel Carson “If we are going to live so intimately with these chemicals - eatin…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Azo dyes are commonly used in the textile industry, and are a major constituent of textile factory waste. However, azo-linkages remain non biodegradable, and are highly toxic, linked the neu…
AJAS · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
The purpose of this research was to determine the effects of titanium dioxide (TiO2) and zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles on the health of Dugesia tigrina. Due to the various novel application…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, approximately 39% of Americans live in coastal areas. In the wake of Hurricane Harvey and Maria, attention has been drawn to…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
From ancient times to modern times, Observation Astronomy have left us various astronomical charts. Among these charts is china’s celestial map known to be the oldest ever. But a chart named…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
In the arid West, conversion of intermittent streams to arroyos makes the already limited water even less available to the ecosystem. This study used two drones (one we designed and built in…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
From April 2017 to October 2017, 80 advisories on the beaches of Louisiana (Department of Health 2017) have been reported. Louisiana Department of Health has recorded bacteria count througho…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Climate change has caused diminishing water resources, affecting food crop yield globally. Frequent irrigation is necessary when soil moisture decreases but becomes a problem due to limited…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In order to prevent the release of pollutants due to fossil fuel usage people are switching to better alternatives like solar panels, especially in places like Texas and Florida which use mo…
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…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Coral reefs are a critical part of the ocean’s ecology, being home to 4,000 fish species and 700 types of coral. Increasing levels of carbon dioxide are causing the oceans to acidify. This a…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The Western Pacific region is one of the most populous regions on Earth and also one of the most volcanically active regions. There are at least twenty-five active or dormant volcanoes withi…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fine particle is tiny material that cannot be seen to people. Its size is less than 2.5? in diameter, but it’s very harmful to our health. In some education school’s air condition, serious l…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Is it radioactive? That's what everyone asks when I tell them that I test items from Prince William Sound (PWS) beaches with my family. I am concerned with what is, and what will be, washed…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Crop yields are strongly dependent on average summertime temperatures and extreme heat waves, both of which are projected to increase in the coming century. A statistical model was created t…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The San Francisco stream is one of the most crowded points of the city during summer months. Some reasons are its proximity and easy access to the inhabitants of the city and the fluent freq…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Freshwater pollution is a major environmental threat across the globe, exacerbated by the lack of ongoing scientific data about health of freshwater bodies. One way to address this problem i…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Worldwide 1, out of every 5 deaths of children under 5 is due to a water-related disease. 1 in 9 people world wide do not have access to safe and clean drinking water. The purpose of my expe…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Desalination and purification of seawater could prevent droughts and give all humanity access to clean water. However, current desalination techniques like reverse osmosis (RO) are difficult…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Ice cores extracted from ice sheets contain valuable information about the past atmospheric makeup inside air bubbles within the ice, which are measured by releasing the contents of trapped…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Biodiversity is very important for environmental health since it adds to genetic variability, preventing soil erosion, and discovering new resources. Endemic plants add to the biodiversity o…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This study purposely aimed to determine the effects of substances on the growth of plants. The researcher hypothesized that adding substances into the growing medium will alter the genetic m…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
This project was an investigative study into the environmental impacts of the distribution of arsenic contaminated soil within inundation zones affected by the 1960 Chilean Tsunami in Hilo,…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The Ouachita Mountains contain two major categories of rock formations: pre-orogenic and syn-orogenic. This study focuses on the Hot Springs Sandstone, which is separated from the Arkansas N…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Hurricanes pose a threat to property and human life. Hurricane Sandy (2012) was unusual in that it recurved to the west as it traveled north, rather than recurving to the east, resulting in…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In 2010, the pyroclastic flows from Merapi vocano (Indonesia), deviated from the track and caused a big damage and big diverification in its morphology. Related to volcanic eruption, a local…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Seaweed has been used for a long time as a source of food, animal fodder, medicine, in cosmetic products, and textile etc. As the demand for organic products is increasing every day, this pr…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Black carbon (BC) aerosol particles originate from the combustion process and absorb wavelengths within the visible light spectrum which in turn warms the atmosphere and may contribute to an…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
This study investigated for the first time whether ants could serve as a model organism for rapidly screening chemical effects on key social behaviors of honeybees. Current tests of honeybee…
AJAS · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
The objective of this project was to create a phenology model by analyzing known vegetation pixels, to extract key transition dates from each year’s phenological data, and to compare them to…