Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals Because global warming is changing convection currents, my objective was to discover how a change in affects sand patterns and desert distribution. Methods/Materials Four pi…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to determine the affects of lateral compression on differentiated layers of sand. Since I live in Humboldt County, where plate tectonics and cru…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Second Award
Objectives/Goals Find out which topography is most effective in reducing water erosion. Measure the amount of water erosion in a soil filled tray using different types of topography. Each ty…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment was to verify that Carbon Dioxide gas blocked the transmission of infrared light as I learned in did when my science class studied climate chang…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our project is about how global warming is affecting snowfall in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in past 80 years. Methods/Materials We did our project in 3 parts Part 1 Records…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective was to understand liquefaction, the process that causes the soil to collapse and liquefy during an earthquake, and see which soils were more susceptible to this…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Third Award
Objectives/Goals I visited Astro Camp for several days on a field trip and it inspired me to do a science fair project about space, our sun, and our solar system, so I searched for ideas on…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
First Award
Objectives/Goals The Permian mass extinction caused the elimination of 80% of marine genera. Ammonoids, however, survived the extinction and returned to the levels of diversity that had been…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals In this experiment, three forms of management practices where tested. The goal of the experiment was to discover the most effective way to slow down soil erosion by water in…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals Mars has a greater diversity of impact craters than any other planet in our solar system. The purpose of my science project was to determine which type of geologic force has…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals Subsidence has cost billions of dollars in structural damage to buildings,roadways, homes and economic loss in land use. Most devastating consequence of subsidence is that i…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
First Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine the effects of different soil amendments on the absorption and retention rates of water in the soil. I used six different amendments: volcanic…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our objective was to see how much different types of soils compact when a weight was dropped on them, what their bearing capacities were before and after compaction, and how…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals This project aims to analyze urban winds to harness wind power. Methods/Materials Two types of experiments were conducted regarding wind patterns. Data was collected from 11…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to emulate greenhouse effect and to test how different gases affected the thermal equilibrium temperature. The hypothesis was that carbon…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine if tides have an effect on the salinity of water in Elkhorn Slough. My hypothesis is high tides will cause an increase in salinity, by the seawat…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Problem Statement: Is the size of a tornado affected by the water temperature over which it is created? Hypothesis: I think that when the water temperature rises, the size o…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our objective was to send a weather balloon into space to make observations of key variables that determine how temperature and light change as you increase altitude. Method…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Second Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this investigation was to determine if horse bones and other fossils found in the Barstow Formation from the Miocene period could be used to reconstruct the t…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Third Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to determine if saturating hydrophobic soil with an alkaline or acidic solution will help with water percolation. My goal is to find a way to r…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals Determining the soils percolation rate and particulate count at varios points along the Kings River. Methods/Materials Six soil samples collected at two mile intervals along…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of my was to figure out which sediment decreases liquefaction. I would use this information find out which sediment to build structures on. So that contractors…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals This experiment was conducted to determine how temperature affects the intensity of fluorescence in minerals by building an electronic device to measure the intensity of lig…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals To test the effects that temperature changes have at contributing to the erosion of rocks. Methods/Materials 5 pairs of rocks. One of each pair will be frozen and then boile…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
First Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine whether or not there is a relation between hail and tornadoes using F4 and F5 tornadoes for better tornado prediction methods. Methods/Material…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to determine if adding different materials to various soil types will have an affect on the soils' overall bearing capacity. My hypothesis was…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Second Award
Objectives/Goals The main idea of my science fair project is to come up with a basic mathematical equation that can model the height of the San Lorenzo River using years of river data and so…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to find what soil (cat litter, dirt, sand) protected Lego towers the best against earthquakes on a shake table with varying voltage, building…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this research was to determine the shape, size, optical properties, and age of Borneo smoke plumes imaged by the MISR instrument between 2001 and 2009. The Mu…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals We all know that weather is slightly different every year, if not a lot. I wanted to describe the weather patterns in Moss Landing and see if it correlated with ocean surfac…