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 · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Coastal erosion costs around $500 million per year due to damages to essential infrastructure (NOAA, 2025). Scientists have explored nature-based solutions to coastal erosion, specifically t…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This study describes a novel species of snail in the genus Japonia (subfamily Cyclophoridae, family Cyclophoridae) discovered in Hong Kong. This species is distinguished by unique long, spoo…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Lake-effect precipitation, which significantly impacts regions downwind of the Great Lakes, poses unique forecasting challenges due to its dependence on localized processes and intricate int…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Heavy metal contamination in water poses a significant threat to human health and the environment. Effective detection of heavy metals is crucial for the prompt removal of contamination sour…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences First Award
In 2024, over 10,000 tons of oil were spilled into the ocean, damaging the environment and costing billions of dollars in mitigation efforts. This project is a continuation of previous resea…
AJAS · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
Urban air pollution, particularly fine particulate matter (PM2.5), poses a significant public health risk globally. Current methods of assessing air quality lack comprehensive integration of…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The researchers conducted experiments using Pestalotiopsis microspora and Pleurotus pulmonarius creating a non-toxic biodegradable process for decomposing plastic. P. microspora is a fungus…
AJAS · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
This study investigated the predictability of microplastic exposure in Daphnia magna through a machine learning-based approach based on gene expression levels. The research's methodology inv…
AJAS · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
Increasing carbon emissions is resulting in global warming, melting of polar ice, and slowing of ocean currents, putting sharks at risk. Sharks are a keystone species that serve as an indica…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
The spotted lanternfly (SLF), Lycorma delicatula, is an invasive planthopper species that feeds on a wide variety of plant hosts, causing an estimated $3 billion in damages in the United Sta…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Caffeine, a prevalent compound in human wastewater, has emerged as a reliable anthropogenic biomarker for detecting septic tank contamination in aquatic systems due to its minimal natural oc…
AJAS · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
Due to their unpredictable nature and large area that they cover, much energy has been put into developing the knowledge of karst landscapes and the vulnerable aquifer systems they contain.…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Microplastics, degraded from plastic products, have become a pervasive pollutant that severely impacts marine ecosystems and public health. This issue is especially critical in Hawaii, where…
AJAS · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
Rationale: Environmental pollution from industrial emissions can have a large effect on precipitation quality. In exploring this further, I wanted to answer the question about whether precip…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
The widespread use of synthetic surfactants in household detergents pose major environmental risks due to chemical persistence of non-biodegradable petrochemicals in ecosystems. However, Sap…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This study compares the performance of four different soil testers to see the most accurate and reliable device for measuring soil. The experiment tests the sensors on three types of soil, s…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Mars' current surface preserves a geological record for its mineralogical processes, with volcanism once being the primary source of sulfur transport. However, there is a mismatch between th…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Anthropogenic methane (CH4) emissions cause roughly 700,000 premature deaths annually; moreover, CH4 is difficult to monitor and predict. Existing methods lack the predictive accuracy and re…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Biodiversity is essential for ecosystem health and stability. Though springtails are widely accepted as decomposers, recent studies suggest they may also be keystone organisms. Since native…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Coral reef ecosystems are rapidly deteriorating as they endure global threats leading to negative economic impacts, loss of cultural understanding and a decrease in habitat and biodiversity.…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
The chemical class, Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS), first used in the 1940s for ScotchgardTM and TelfonTM has grown to be a chemical class of 12,039 variants. Recently, health co…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
My project focused on the effect of fire mitigation on avian biodiversity as measured through bioacoustics, to ultimately understand forest health. It was inspired by the controversy that oc…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Acres burned by U.S wildfires have increased since the 1980s, due to warmer temperatures. Over 7 million acres have burned per year in the past 20 years (NOAA). Wildfire plays an integral ro…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Tornadoes have various wind speeds throughout their life cycles and are usually warned by the National Weather Service to protect life and property. I analyzed data on select tornadoes (2011…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Approximately 3.5 million people die annually due to inadequate water resources. More than 90% of pollution-related deaths occurred in low-income and middle-income countries. Although resear…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Greenhouse gases, with carbon dioxide (CO2) being the most significant contributor, are the primary causes of climate change. Atmospheric CO2 levels have risen dramatically from pre-industri…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This project assessed whether pine tree ring growth could be used to track rates of saltwater intrusion by analyzing pine tree growth ring response to surface water specific conductance leve…
AJAS · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
Global warming is rapidly melting glaciers, causing sea levels to rise and shorelines to encroach on communities and animal habitats. This results in coastal erosion, increased storm surges,…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Coronal Mass Ejections alter space weather, causing geomagnetic storms, atmospheric density disruptions, and ionospheric turbulence, damaging over 2 trillion dollars of satellites and power…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
A healthy stream is vital to the local ecosystem for many reasons. The stream helps regulate floodwaters, filters pollutants, serves agricultural purposes, and maintains a balanced ecosystem…