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 · 2019
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Objectives I was curious to see if watersheds with melting glaciers would have a greater early fall streamflow than watersheds without glaciers. Methods I selected study areas in Glacier Cre…
CSEF · 2019
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Objectives Our goal is to better understand the unique ecosystem that is the Santa Cruz sandhills and how they are impacted by invasive species. We hypothesize that there will be more soil w…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
One of the main causes of global warming is deforestation. In the Philippines, the main causes of deforestation are illegal logging and the slash-and-burn agriculture but in spite of this, f…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this experiment was to see if there is a correlation between the Kp Index and the error magnitude of GPS readings with and without WAAS capability. Our hypothesis was that the…
CSEF · 2019
Earth & Environmental Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives The objective of this experiment was to see if pre-moistening soil is an effective way to limit soil temperature during a prescribed burn. If so, this might be an effective tool f…
CSEF · 2019
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Objectives As Southern California faces an increasing threat of drought in our warming climate, it is crucial to understand streamflow patterns to optimize our usage of this essential resour…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Wetlands are important wildlife habitats, but are severely threatened and need to be preserved and restored. This study developed a powerful, low-cost, and reusable methodology to assess avi…
CSEF · 2019
Earth & Environmental Sciences First Award
Objectives Wetlands, extremely important as wildlife habitats, are under severe threat in the United States. Preservation and restoration of wetland habitats is therefore critical for improv…
CSEF · 2019
Earth & Environmental Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives This project aimed to explain why the presence of organic acids is able to suppress the reaction between dinitrogen pentoxide and chlorine ions. It was hypothesized that formate i…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The southern pine beetle (SPB), Dendroctonus frontalis, is one of the most destructive organisms to pine forests in the southeastern United States. The preferred host of SPB's include that o…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
GenX is a perfluorinated compound that has been contaminating the Cape Fear River, NC for over 20 years. Environmental contaminants like GenX often accumulate in tissues of aquatic organisms…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Dreissena polymorpha, commonly known as the Zebra Mussel, is a highly invasive species of bivalve. D. polymorpha has been responsible for the alteration of natural American waterways and the…
CSEF · 2019
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Objectives This research proposes that if plants from Yosemite National Park experience artificial light pollution, simulated by a 60 watt light bulb underneath a black apron, then those typ…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Our area is very agriculturally centered and various chemicals find their way into our water affecting our drinking water. Hastings, Nebraska will soon have to deal with a large plume of nit…
CSEF · 2019
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Objectives Eutrophication, the excessive richness of nutrients in a body of water, is a growing problem in lakes, rivers, creeks, and coastlines. It is caused by the runoff of nitrates and p…
CSEF · 2019
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Objectives The purpose of this experiment is to prove that smaller sized particles will take longer to fault than larger sized particles in reverse faulting. It was hypothesized that if smal…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
On the Kalaupapa Peninsula, coastal salt spray vegetation transitions from shorter, predominantly native plants near the shoreline, to taller Christmas berry (Schinus terebinthifolius) furth…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In this project I wanted to conduct research to see if wood-fire smoke had an effect on the growth of farm crops. In many regions, there is a fire season that puts a large amount of wood smo…
CSEF · 2019
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Objectives My project was to determine the effect of varying air pressure on the fluidity of different types of sand. I believed that the finer sand would fluidize more easily than the more…
CSEF · 2019
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Objectives The purpose of this experiment was to determine 1) if wildfire smoke affected grapes grown in Lake County and 2) if this smoke affected people s opinions of fermented grape produc…
CSEF · 2019
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Objectives The purpose of my experiment was to determine if more air pollution particles were collected depending on locations and heights. I do believe that locations and heights will chang…
AJAS · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
The impact of insects provides the ecosystems they inhabit with numerous benefits that assist their communities. These insects provide an excellent source of instinct and an important charac…
CSEF · 2019
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Objectives There have been multiple wildfires around the state of California in the past few years. I wanted to see if the ash from the wildfires affect the nutrient and pH levels of the soi…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this experiment was to scientifically look at the effects of sodium on greenery in nature. This project has 3 experiments: the first using beans, the second using algae (chlor…
AJAS · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
Purpose: The purpose of this project is to 1) examine the leaching of heavy metals from fly ash concrete by testing water samples for metals (found in fly ash) from concrete that is frozen,…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
As climate patterns change and more pollutants enter the environment, many devastating natural disasters wreak havoc on communities and the ecosystems around them. One such disaster is harmf…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Phytoplankton are vital organisms serving as a biological carbon pump, removing approximately ten trillion kilograms of carbon from the atmosphere annually. Nitrogen and phosphorus are two n…
AJAS · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
Microplastics are defined as plastics under 5mm in diameter, and can be divided into five groups: fragments, fibers, beads, foams, and films. It has been documented that microplastics can em…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The laws of thermodynamics and Stokes’ Law with Cunningham Slip Correction Factor are used to support an updated atmospheric climate change model to include the effect of wildfire smoke ash…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
A decline in photosynthetic rates of zooxanthellae due to heightened ocean temperatures decreases the energy produced by the algae for the coral, leading to an expulsion of zooxanthellae fro…