ISEF · 2014
4+1
Earth and Environmental Sciences
4+1 is a project that implements four functions created to improve the safety of driving plus one which improves the efficiency of the cars affecting positively pollution and energy consumpt…
Earth and Environmental Sciences science fair projects from 2014
Browse 99 real Earth and Environmental Sciences projects entered in 2014, with abstracts, awards and links to the original entries.
ISEF · 2014
A Heart-Rate-Controlled Animated Exercise Trainer Using Neural-Network-Based Adaptive Control
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Regular exercise helps maintaining physical fitness and preventing diseases. Many people choose to exercise at home by following training videos. Without feedback from the videos, the exerci…
ISEF · 2014
Algorithm for Machine Reading
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The goal of this project has been to develop an algorithm to determine which adjectives pertain to which nouns in a written sentence. The algorithm is written in the PHP programming language…
ISEF · 2014
A New General Method of Relational Heuristics Utilizing Agent-Based Collective Intelligence
Earth and Environmental Sciences
A method of identifying and utilizing relationships within data was created. This system was implemented using a collection of agents that have individualized goals and are capable of self-d…
ISEF · 2014
A Novel Approach to Biometric Identification Using an Iris Scanner
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
A biometric identification system that is coded in Java language on Netbeans IDE which automatically identifies a person by comparing previously scanned bitcodes of their iris. The purpose o…
ISEF · 2014
A Novel Filter for Tracking Trends in Noisy Real-Time Data
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Noise in data can mask underlying trends. These trends can consist of ramps, steps, spikes, sinusoids, etc., and may provide important information about the process being monitored. In order…
ISEF · 2014
A Novel Method for Melanoma Skin Cancer Diagnosis at an Early Stage Using ANN and DNA Analysis
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Melanoma has an incidence rate of more than 75000 per year with mortality rate of 10000 approximately per year, so early detection highly increases the chance of treatment. A new method prop…
ISEF · 2014
Antimalarials: Modeling the Next Generation Inhibitors
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Developing antimalarial drugs has always been an important objective for the pharmaceutical industry. However, in the past few decades, there has been an increase in malaria parasites that h…
ISEF · 2014
Are You Smarter than a Sentry Gun?: An Investigation of Motion Tracking
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In this project, we developed an intelligent motion tracking system incorporating both software and hardware. The software reads in a video stream from a webcam, processes it to recognize mo…
ISEF · 2014
Artificial Intelligence: Evolution and Genetic Algorithms
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The main goal of the project was presenting options of artificial intelligence (namely genetic algorithms) on simple but complex example. The example being the simulation of robots with goal…
ISEF · 2014
Artificial Intelligence Sense for the Blind to Play Video Games using Their Tongue
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Blindness forms a significant barrier to participate in physical activities including entertainment. Playing video games is one way of having fun. At present the current video game technolog…
ISEF · 2014
Astrobiology: The Formation of Life-Supporting Amino Acids on Cosmic Dust Particles
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Many of the current theories regarding the origin of life on Earth rely heavily on the assumption that amino acids were present in the ‘primordial soup’, some 4 billion years ago. However, r…
ISEF · 2014
Automated American Sign Language Translation: Identifying the Handshape Component of American Sign Language Using a 3D-camera and Handtracking Middleware Library to Create a Basis for an Automated Sign Translator
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The project seeks to build a program that uses the FORTH 3D HandTracking Library (An API for a framework to track hands in 3D) in conjunction with a 3D camera to identify handshape, one of t…
CSEF · 2014
Beach Changes During a Period of Low Waves and High Tides
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals Locally, Goleta Beach erosion has become a problem so we chose this area for study and Mesa Lane beach is physically different from Goleta. Methods/Materials Materials:2, 5…
ISEF · 2014
Biofuel from Tree Fungus
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The endophytic tree fungus, Gliocladium Roseum from the Ulmo tree, expels hydrocarbons which could be used as fuel. The purpose of this project is to identify the fungus, Gliocladium Roseum,…
ISEF · 2014
Burning Calories
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Have you ever wondered how nutritionists know how many calories a certain food contains? In this project, I used a more homemade method for measuring how much chemical energy is available in…
ISEF · 2014
Comparison of Common Linear Pseudorandom Number Generators
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this project is to test the randomness of various pseudorandom linear congruential number generators. It is hypothesized that these four LCGs are not random, but that they wil…
ISEF · 2014
Considering the Green Economy of Recycling Amberlyst-15 Beads
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Due to the importance of being sustainable, recovering and recycling Amberlyst-15 beads was evaluated. The goal of this project was to analyze how many times in the organic lab the Amberlyst…
ISEF · 2014
Conway's Labyrinth
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This project investigates an obvious similarity between the labyrinth-like patterns produced by the fully asynchronous version of John H. Conway's Game of Life on the one hand, and those for…
ISEF · 2014
Dendritic Crystallization of Salts
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Crystallization is a scientific process which has often been examined. Due to the number of parameters involved, questions still remain. This is especially true for dendritic crystallization…
ISEF · 2014
Dendritic Polymers as a Modifier of Chromatographic and Electrophoretic Systems in the Determination of Vitamin and Amino Acids
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Dendrimers and hyperbranched (hb) polymers possess a number of properties, which make them promising candidates for various chromatographic applications. The purpose of our study was to iden…
ISEF · 2014
Design of Novel Poly(oximinoalkyl) amines and their Applications in Catalysis
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The polydentate ligands have a great importance in catalysis, design of biomimetics and supramolecular chemistry. Recently poly(oximinoalkyl)amines were proposed as prospective polydentate l…
ISEF · 2014
Detecting Heart Disease Faster
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of death world-wide. Coronary CT angiography (CTA) provides a noninvasive method for diagnosing CAD by creating 3D data of the heart. Detec…
ISEF · 2014
Detecting the Structure of Videos by Extracting Features from Time Series User Interaction Data
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Mainstream content on the Internet is becoming less text-based, with more emphasis given to videos. As a result, the demands on automatic summarization are rapidly increasing. In the summari…
ISEF · 2014
Determining Optimal Police Patrol Times and Locations Using Local Search Techniques
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Local search is a powerful optimization method used to approach numerous computationally intensive, real-world problems. This research focused on designing an algorithm using local search op…
CSEF · 2014
Developing a Self Sufficient Estuary Mesocosm
Earth & Planetary Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals Providing vital services to a vast variety of species, salt marshes retain the distinction as one of the most productive ecosystems on the terrestrial biosphere. Due to incr…
ISEF · 2014
Developing Automatic Music Transcription Software
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Transcribing music is a difficult and time consuming task. Currently, no commercial software has been released to transcribe music automatically. The goal of this continuation project was to…
ISEF · 2014
Development of a Novel Machine Learning Algorithm to Monitor Vascular Tissue Transfers Using Speech Recognition Techniques
Earth and Environmental Sciences First Award
A pencil doppler is the primary tool used in detection of devastating vascular tissue transfer-related ailments through analysis of vascular flow. However, the doppler is ineffective because…
ISEF · 2014
Diagnosis of Abnormalities in 3-Dimensional Mammograms via an Artificial Neural Network
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Mammograms are the most popular method of early detection for breast cancer, the 3rd leading cause of death among women in the United States. In the United States, about 37 million mammograp…
CSEF · 2014
Does Altitude Affect Background Radiation?
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals This experiment was conducted to find out whether altitude affects background radiation. The hypothesis stated that an increased altitude would result in increased backgroun…