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 · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fireflies help our environment stay balanced and with vanishing populations, it is becoming a more important cause to keep them reproducing. With the increasing spread of light pollution, th…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this project was to investigate whether modern technology has damaging effects on the environment. This was tested by putting spider plants into two Faraday cages, with one co…
AJAS · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
Research was done to find a potential solution to treating the wastewater, otherwise as known as leachate, using zeolites, an aluminosilicate, crystalline structure, and gravel. The purpose…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Research was conducted testing the growth of Duckweed after the introduction of the probiotic bacteria, Bacillus. The purpose of this experiment was to restrict the growth of the invasive aq…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this experiment determines how bay and estuary water quality is affected by high volumes of boat traffic. A large presence of boats in waterways has been found to disturb wate…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The Effects of Low Levels of Radiation on Phyasrum polycephalum LEVI HRABOS, Northwestern High School, Kokomo, Indiana, 46901 The purpose of running these experiments was to determine the ef…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Silver has long been associated with antibacterial properties, which at high enough concentrations, could prove troublesome for many aquatic organisms. In particular, when silver is dissolve…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In response to the global environmental crisis, scientists are beginning to narrow investigation upon the extraction of algae oil as a means of producing biofuel, which is commonly combined…
AJAS · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
Glyphosate is the most commonly used herbicide in the world. Recent studies suggest that glyphosate-based herbicides (GBHs) have a higher toxicity towards animals than previously assumed by…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
I expect to find that the number of Asian Shore Crabs are vast in both Scituate and Nut Island and to discover that the populations are not evolving due of their geographic proximity and lac…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Oil spillage in the sea is one of the most serious environmental disasters on our planet. Cleaning up oil spillages is a long and difficult process and if not carried out effectively irrever…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
After the ban of hydrofluorocarbons by the Kigali Accord, humans turned to perfluoroamines as potential substitutes. However, little information is known about these compounds. This work ana…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Purpose: A makeshift portable water filtration system was designed to test the hypothesis that it would bring levels of E.coli down to acceptable values safe for human consumption. Procedure…
AJAS · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
Does loss of taxa affect trophic function? Taxonomic diversity and trophic function for aquatic insects were estimated across streams exhibiting a habitat degradation gradient. Data were obt…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Petroleum is heavily depended upon for energy production, the production of plastic, and the manufacturing of multiple important chemicals. Though petroleum is said to have broad areas of ap…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The rapidly declining health and changing distribution of coral reefs is impacting local ecologies and economies worldwide. Implementing effective conservation methods requires more accurate…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
The objective of this project is to derive the vertical air currents in hurricanes using a physics-based model to describe the dropsonde fall speed in still air. By assuming that the dropson…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In the 1900’s silver was used extensively as an antimicrobial agent. When antibiotics were developed, they became very popular and silver as an antibacterial decreased. This research is re-e…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Drinking water is a basic need for every living being. Unfortunately, water sources are running out because of human pollution and the global demographic increase. For this reason, it is nec…