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 · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The intent of our project was to determine the sources of energy in Saturn#s rings by writing programs to compute and analyze their temperatures. Methods/Materials We wrote…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment was to observe carbon dioxide as an essential contributor to global warming, and to accurately model how in the near future, the amount of carbo…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project was to determine the quality of the water entering the Compton Creek from sub-watersheds and how the water from these sub-watersheds differ in their…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals I am doing my project to see how gas stations affect the soil, and environment around them. I am also doing this to get a better understanding of the environmental problems…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to find out what type of soil houses should be built on. The project demonstrates how well a sand/soil can withstand a certain amount of we…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The Sunda megathrust fault off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia has experienced big earthquakes in recent history. The section of the megathrust south of these ruptures,…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to find a mathematical equation to predict earth's long term temperature variations. With this information, I can find out if the earth'…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals Out of all the bodies in our solar system only one, Earth, has active plate tectonics. It is not known for certain what drives the system. Some believe that convection curre…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals This study examined the possible correlation between sunspot number and the deflection component of the Earth's magnetic field. In the first year, sunspot measurements were…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals Problem: What is the origin of the aplitic dikes present in the Half Dome Granodiorite? Hypothesis: I believe that the aplitic dikes result from the squeezing of silicic mel…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals To discover whether ground vibration waves travel faster uphill or downhil. Methods/Materials Materials: Oscilloscope, laptop computer, log, vibration sensors, cables, tape-…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals The analyst completed in 2005 a study of 3d seismic and well data in the Sacramento basin that revealed a subsurface, circular, ~5500-m-diameter feature, which is buried 1,4…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals Variation of geologic materials near the Earths surface can have a significant effect on ground motions from earthquakes. Shear-wave velocity (Vs) is an appropriate measure…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The project seeks to determine atmospheric conditions that affect the intensity of UVA and UVB at the earth's surface. Four test conditions are simulated: 1. unaffected atmo…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals Aerosol Optical Thickness (AOT) is caused by tiny particles and vapors suspended in midair, created by salt, pollen, soot, smoke, water and even ice. The more concentrated t…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project was to determine the effect that slope and vegetation have on soil erosion caused by rain. I believe that there will be more erosion in areas with the…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our experiment is about measuring test sites for the amount of Sudden Oak Death Syndrome-caused fuel loads and how this disease affects fire danger in certain areas. Sudden…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals We want to know if the soil on our property has the right amount of nutrients in it for our new lilac tree to grow healthy and strong. Our goal is to find the best spot by t…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my study is to investigate which soil type is the stiffest and supports the most compressive stress. I hypothesized soils with larger size of particles will s…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is threefold: firstly, to create and test a mathematical model for fecal indicator bacteria determinations in coastal aquatic ecosystems; secondl…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to find out if different ocean bottoms affect the height of a breaking wave. Out of my three bottoms sand,rocks,and gravel (which mimicks a ree…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to determine which type of soil is the most absorbant of which kind of pollutants. The information gained from this experiment will benefi…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to measure the water properties, such as pH, density, and non-volatile residue, at various points along Ballona Creek. The mussel population…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to examine the effect of compression on granular media. Specifically, I was interested in the phenomenon of the compression of wet sand, comp…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of the experiment was to investigate the effect of particle size and gradation on the erodibility of soil. Methods/Materials The experiment called for approxim…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals This study looks at whether the moon's gravitational pull affects the frequency, magnitude, and depths of earthquakes. Methods/Materials The location of the moon at the time…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals The main objectives of this project were to study 1) the structural response of a building when founded on different soil types under similar seismic loading and 2) the seis…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine the profile of a desert wash from top to bottom.I hypothesized the profile of a desert wash would change down the length of the wash.I predicted…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals Liquefaction is a phenomenon that has been shown to cause dangerous problems in regards to structural dynamics and engineering of buildings during earthquakes. One potential…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals Recently there has been an effort to clean up the San Lorenzo River and reintroduce native fish. In this project we are monitoring Boulder Creek, a tributary of the San Lore…