Browse 24 real Earth and Environmental Sciences projects entered in 2012, with abstracts, awards and links to the original entries.
CSEF · 2012
Earth & Planetary Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals This experiment examined whether the local variables of temperature, humidity and barometric pressure influence the frequency of muon strikes at sea level. Methods/Materials…
CSEF · 2012
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals My hypothesis is that the result numbers of the soil were going to go down. I made this hypothesis because the thermometer was being pushed in further down in all the soils.…
CSEF · 2012
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals If oxygenic photosynthesis had evolved in the Archean (>2.5 bya) then Archean sedimentary rocks should be rich in organic carbon regardless of their proximity to hydrotherma…
CSEF · 2012
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to see the change of pressure in a container with increasing altitude and the container will act as a pair of lungs. Methods/Materials 1-2 litte…
CSEF · 2012
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals Because global warming is changing convection currents, my objective was to discover how a change in affects sand patterns and desert distribution. Methods/Materials Four pi…
CSEF · 2012
Earth & Planetary Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to determine the affects of lateral compression on differentiated layers of sand. Since I live in Humboldt County, where plate tectonics and cru…
CSEF · 2012
Earth & Planetary Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals Find out which topography is most effective in reducing water erosion. Measure the amount of water erosion in a soil filled tray using different types of topography. Each ty…
CSEF · 2012
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment was to verify that Carbon Dioxide gas blocked the transmission of infrared light as I learned in did when my science class studied climate chang…
CSEF · 2012
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our project is about how global warming is affecting snowfall in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in past 80 years. Methods/Materials We did our project in 3 parts Part 1 Records…
CSEF · 2012
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective was to understand liquefaction, the process that causes the soil to collapse and liquefy during an earthquake, and see which soils were more susceptible to this…
CSEF · 2012
Earth & Planetary Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals I visited Astro Camp for several days on a field trip and it inspired me to do a science fair project about space, our sun, and our solar system, so I searched for ideas on…
CSEF · 2012
Earth & Planetary Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals The Permian mass extinction caused the elimination of 80% of marine genera. Ammonoids, however, survived the extinction and returned to the levels of diversity that had been…
CSEF · 2012
Earth & Planetary Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals In this experiment, three forms of management practices where tested. The goal of the experiment was to discover the most effective way to slow down soil erosion by water in…
CSEF · 2012
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals Mars has a greater diversity of impact craters than any other planet in our solar system. The purpose of my science project was to determine which type of geologic force has…
CSEF · 2012
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals Subsidence has cost billions of dollars in structural damage to buildings,roadways, homes and economic loss in land use. Most devastating consequence of subsidence is that i…
CSEF · 2012
Earth & Planetary Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine the effects of different soil amendments on the absorption and retention rates of water in the soil. I used six different amendments: volcanic…
CSEF · 2012
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our objective was to see how much different types of soils compact when a weight was dropped on them, what their bearing capacities were before and after compaction, and how…
CSEF · 2012
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals This project aims to analyze urban winds to harness wind power. Methods/Materials Two types of experiments were conducted regarding wind patterns. Data was collected from 11…
CSEF · 2012
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to emulate greenhouse effect and to test how different gases affected the thermal equilibrium temperature. The hypothesis was that carbon…
CSEF · 2012
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine if tides have an effect on the salinity of water in Elkhorn Slough. My hypothesis is high tides will cause an increase in salinity, by the seawat…
CSEF · 2012
Earth & Planetary Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Problem Statement: Is the size of a tornado affected by the water temperature over which it is created? Hypothesis: I think that when the water temperature rises, the size o…
CSEF · 2012
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our objective was to send a weather balloon into space to make observations of key variables that determine how temperature and light change as you increase altitude. Method…
CSEF · 2012
Earth & Planetary Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this investigation was to determine if horse bones and other fossils found in the Barstow Formation from the Miocene period could be used to reconstruct the t…
CSEF · 2012
Earth & Planetary Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to determine if saturating hydrophobic soil with an alkaline or acidic solution will help with water percolation. My goal is to find a way to r…