Browse 20 real Earth and Environmental Sciences projects entered in 2011, with abstracts, awards and links to the original entries.
CSEF · 2011
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals Determining the soils percolation rate and particulate count at varios points along the Kings River. Methods/Materials Six soil samples collected at two mile intervals along…
CSEF · 2011
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of my was to figure out which sediment decreases liquefaction. I would use this information find out which sediment to build structures on. So that contractors…
CSEF · 2011
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals This experiment was conducted to determine how temperature affects the intensity of fluorescence in minerals by building an electronic device to measure the intensity of lig…
CSEF · 2011
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals To test the effects that temperature changes have at contributing to the erosion of rocks. Methods/Materials 5 pairs of rocks. One of each pair will be frozen and then boile…
CSEF · 2011
Earth & Planetary Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine whether or not there is a relation between hail and tornadoes using F4 and F5 tornadoes for better tornado prediction methods. Methods/Material…
CSEF · 2011
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to determine if adding different materials to various soil types will have an affect on the soils' overall bearing capacity. My hypothesis was…
CSEF · 2011
Earth & Planetary Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals The main idea of my science fair project is to come up with a basic mathematical equation that can model the height of the San Lorenzo River using years of river data and so…
CSEF · 2011
Earth & Planetary Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to find what soil (cat litter, dirt, sand) protected Lego towers the best against earthquakes on a shake table with varying voltage, building…
CSEF · 2011
Earth & Planetary Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this research was to determine the shape, size, optical properties, and age of Borneo smoke plumes imaged by the MISR instrument between 2001 and 2009. The Mu…
CSEF · 2011
Earth & Planetary Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals We all know that weather is slightly different every year, if not a lot. I wanted to describe the weather patterns in Moss Landing and see if it correlated with ocean surfac…
CSEF · 2011
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals This project was to determine which sinkhole repair technique would result in fewer sinkholes in neighboring areas where potential sinkholes can occur. The hypothesis was th…
CSEF · 2011
Earth & Planetary Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to evaluate the relationship between shear-wave velocity and density of different geologic materials at various critical structures, and h…
CSEF · 2011
Earth & Planetary Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to test the effects of lateral compression on the folding of the Earth's Crust. The Earth's Crust is made of plates that are in constant m…
CSEF · 2011
Earth & Planetary Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals Aerosols are liquid or solid colloidal systems suspended in the atmosphere and are crucial in establishing a radiative balance in the atmosphere, yet understanding of aeroso…
CSEF · 2011
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals I am doing this project is because the left over used pesticide will either mix with runoff water, or percolate into soils and seep into ground water, making it undrinkable,…
CSEF · 2011
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine if the color of soil can predict the presence of iron. Methods/Materials Materials: 1 each of ACE Hardware paint color cards of all brown tones…
CSEF · 2011
Earth & Planetary Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of our project was to determine if the size of trilobite fossils we found related to the probability of mortality. Methods/Materials We went to the Marble Mountains…
CSEF · 2011
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals This study investigated how La Nina in the tropical Pacific influences sources of rainwater over California. The ratio of heavy to light oxygen isotopes in storm water was u…
CSEF · 2011
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my science fair project is to determine which organic mixings have the least compaction rate when mixed with water and soil. The reason I am investigating thi…
CSEF · 2011
Earth & Planetary Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my science project is to determine if the addition of polyacrylamide (PAM) will help water percolate through a hrydophobic layer of soil. This is important be…