Browse 22 real Earth and Environmental Sciences projects entered in 2013, with abstracts, awards and links to the original entries.
CSEF · 2013
Earth & Planetary Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals The Ediacara Biota are the Earth's oldest macroscopic organisms. They lived 575-545 million years ago and are globally distributed. Scientists excavate fossil beds in order…
CSEF · 2013
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if air movements across the surface of a body of water have a greater influence on the development of water currents that form "trash islands"…
CSEF · 2013
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals Many empirical hurricane loss models consider only wind speed but neglect storm size. Such models may not accurately predict the losses from super-sized storms such as Hurri…
CSEF · 2013
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our goal was to determine which foundation is the best to build structures on to secure safety and stability during an earthquake. Methods/Materials Our goal was to determin…
CSEF · 2013
Earth & Planetary Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals This project studies how the Arctic Ocean is responding to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO(2)) and global warming. Sea surface temperature (SST) and chlorophyll a…
CSEF · 2013
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective was to find the effects of different irrigation methods on various soil types. Methods/Materials Using three different soil types; clay, sandy, and loam, and th…
CSEF · 2013
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective was to find out the effect of the type of soil on its porosity. I believe that the clay soil from my garden will have a lower porosity than sandy soil. Methods/…
CSEF · 2013
Earth & Planetary Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals We wanted to find out if it always gets colder as you get higher in the mountains. Methods/Materials We used thermochrons (called iButtons) which are thermometers about the…
CSEF · 2013
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to determine the rate that chemicals travel through colloidal suspended paticles in water. I will investigate which soil sample allows chemica…
CSEF · 2013
Earth & Planetary Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals Storm surges are the rise of water caused by storms like Hurricane Sandy. They flood and damage coastlines. My experiment tested which wave-barrier reduces wave power, but a…
CSEF · 2013
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals Problem Statement: To test and discover where objects end up when there is a change in wind and direction of an ocean current. Hypothesis: I believe that the closest islands…
CSEF · 2013
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to determine if treating hydrophobic soil with an alkaline solution or an Aqua Gro L solution will speed the soil rehabilitation process and hel…
CSEF · 2013
Earth & Planetary Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals I have been fascinated with paleontology for as long as I can remember. Several months ago, I visited an area of exposed fossils from the Delmar formation, a middle Eocene l…
CSEF · 2013
Earth & Planetary Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals To determine the affect of atmospheric inversions on ground particulate matter 2.5 levels. And to compare San Lorenzo Valley's particulate matter 2.5 levels to neighboring a…
CSEF · 2013
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals To test soil compaction in 5 different locations Methods/Materials Knitting needle Spool Rubber band Permanent Marker 5 1/2 pound weight Creek flood plain Creek bank Tempera…
CSEF · 2013
Earth & Planetary Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals Because of the observations made while playing in and near the ocean, the question arose as to whether normal tidal variation created larger wave heights. The objective was…
CSEF · 2013
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to see how different water depths can affect a wave#s velocity. Methods/Materials One tank of water is filled with water after many tests an…
CSEF · 2013
Earth & Planetary Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals I wondered if the Golden/Fibonacci Spiral, which is present in many parts of nature, was present in hurricanes and, if so, would it predict the severity of a hurricane. My h…
CSEF · 2013
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our objective was to send a USDCSA (Upper-Stratosphere Data Collecting Systematic Apparatus) to make observations of key variables that determine how temperature, light, win…
CSEF · 2013
Earth & Planetary Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals Our investigation asked whether animal and plant fossils from the Barstovian Miocene period could be used to reconstruct an ancient ecosystem. We compared isolated Merychipp…
CSEF · 2013
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine which organic material had the least soil compaction rate and allowed for the best plant growth. My goal was to prove that grape extract had th…
CSEF · 2013
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to investigate the characteristics of different grain sizes of soil by determining their porosity and permeability and how these affect ea…