Browse 46 real Earth and Environmental Sciences projects entered in 2007, with abstracts, awards and links to the original entries.
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…
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…