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 · 2008
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals As we look to colonize the Moon and Mars, my experiment objective was to extract oxygen from Lunar and Martian regolith simulant via solutions of simple alkaloids and househ…
CSEF · 2008
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals Wildfires are very devastating in California. Every year, they kill people, burn down and damage thousands of homes and force many people to evacuate their homes and neighbo…
CSEF · 2008
Earth & Planetary Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals I want to see how geomagnetic storms affect GPS precision. Methods/Materials I used a Garmin GPS device, NOAA Space Weather Now, and a computer. I went on Google maps to fin…
CSEF · 2008
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Methods/Materials Computer with internet access and a printer. Results The data I#ve collected shows that after collecting a total of 41 hurricanes and tropical storms. It turned out that th…
CSEF · 2008
Earth & Planetary Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals The normal intuition is that increased distance from an epicenter results in a decrease in amplitude and therefore a decrease in intensity. This line of thought is called at…
CSEF · 2008
Earth & Planetary Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals My objective is to see which type of levee wall, an I-Wall Levee or a T-Wall, will better protect against a surge of flood waters as what happened with Hurricane Katrina. Th…
CSEF · 2008
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective for this project was to determine what the angle of the waves had to do with the sand going down the beach. Methods/Materials My first experiment was to make a…
CSEF · 2008
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals In this science project I will find the mass, volume, texture, and consistency of 4 different types of soil. With this knowledge I will test to see which soil absorbs the mo…
CSEF · 2008
Earth & Planetary Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine which soil samples could hold the largest amount of water. I believe that the fine sand will absorb the most water and take the longest to fill w…
CSEF · 2008
Earth & Planetary Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to determine if different ocean bottoms affect the height of a breaking wave. Phase II of this project was to find more accurate data by using…
CSEF · 2008
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the extent to which the presence and growth stage of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne) would affect the erodibility of a…
CSEF · 2008
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of the research was to determine how different types of soil particles, along with varying levels of saturation and slope angles, affect slope stability and the…
CSEF · 2008
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to find out if the surface area and volume of a tide pool affect the temperature and pH and how much the temperature and pH of a tide pool ch…
CSEF · 2008
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my science project is to determine which type of irrigation benefits different types of soils. The reason I am doing this investigation is to help farmers or…
CSEF · 2008
Earth & Planetary Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to examine the properties of soils around the UC Davis area and to create methods and materials which will aid in the prevention of forest…
CSEF · 2008
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals This project was to determine the percent increase of solar radiation absorbed by the earth's surface when man alters: A coniferous forest into a grassland. (Process #1) A g…
CSEF · 2008
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective was to see if wind, air temperature, humidity, surface area would effect evaporation in different ways. Methods/Materials For surface area, first measure 200 m…
CSEF · 2008
Earth & Planetary Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals The main goal of our project was to identify factors that have adversely impacted the Alder Creek Watershed, the salmonid habitat, the demise of the local steelhead populati…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals I wanted to see whether it is the air pressure or the elevation that decreases the boiling point of water as elevation increases. My hypothesis was that it is the air pressu…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project was to determine the arsenic content of water in Sherwood Valley, California. Methods/Materials Five different water samples were collected from the S…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals My project determines whether recent warming in the Earth#s atmosphere could be due to random climatic variability while also showing how carbon dioxide affects atmospheric…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals To identify where the pollutants are coming from and what the major time and space patterns of beach pollution are in Orange County. I set up three hypotheses, 1) Surface wa…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals Impact cratering is the most important process affecting the surfaces of solid bodies in the Solar System. Though the physics of the impact process are characterized, its ch…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine how the following weather conditions affect cloud formation: variations of humidity, temperature, air pressure and nucleation. My hypothesis is…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if common sea floor materials will decrease wave height. Methods/Materials Making a wave box with plastic cardboards and filling it up with wat…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals My science fair project is to see which erosion control blanket changes the pH of soil the most. Methods/Materials For my experiment I went around my yard gathering dirt. Th…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of my experiment was to measure the damage that a simulated earthquake causes on different land types and varying forces using a scale loosley based on the Mercalli…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of my research is to obtain a better understanding of the environment during the Eocene epoch through analysis of the plant and insect fossils I discovered during e…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals This experiment will identify the major pollutants and possibly pinpoint their source. They will also show the conditions of our so-called 'preserved' urban waterways. Metho…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The primary goal was to determine salinity around San Francisco Bay estuary according to location and before and after rainfalls. Secondary goals were to see if relative sal…