Browse 25 real Earth and Environmental Sciences projects entered in 2008, with abstracts, awards and links to the original entries.
CSEF · 2008
Earth & Planetary Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to determine whether the beaches in the Malibu area are eroding at an unnatural rate due to human development. Methods/Materials I compared be…
CSEF · 2008
Earth & Planetary Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals All harbors have a stone breakwater to stop waves, thus preventing costly erosion. But these breakwaters are difficult and expensive to construct. My project tests whether a…
CSEF · 2008
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals This project was to determine if the Arundo was capable of stopping the flow and forcing the water to erode the surrounding area. It is believed that if the Arundo is able t…
CSEF · 2008
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals I wanted to know if barometric pressure would register the same inside and outside. I also tested the reliability of a homemade barometer against the weather channel data ta…
CSEF · 2008
Earth & Planetary Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to measure the dissolved oxygen at various test sites throughout Ballona Creek. I compared the dissolved oxygen to the salinity of the creek wa…
CSEF · 2008
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals My project was to see if sand grains from the more northernly facing beaches in Northern California were on average larger than the sand grains on the more southernly facing…
CSEF · 2008
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals In Seagrove Beach, Florida, my uncle and a nearby hotel wanted to protect their dunes from further hurricanes after mass destruction during Hurricane Dennis. My uncle and 4…
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…