Environmental Science
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals I wanted to identify the soil type with the highest bacterial biodiversity (number of different bacterial colonies) and to see how fires affect bacterial biodiversity. My pr…
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals Northern California's Humboldt Bay tidal marshlands represent a sensitive environment damaged by extensive urbanization, diking, and other human practices. The objective of…
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals The objective in this study was to figure out how many microorganisms are in the water around us, and which body of water has the most different microorganisms. Methods/Mate…
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to determine if there is a correlation between the levels of pollutants in the air and the class size. Methods/Materials In this experime…
Environmental Science
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Irrigation consumes more than 80% of the world's fresh water. The exploding global population and increasing food demands lead to water shortage. Improving the efficiency of…
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to test the survival rate of Daphnia magna in specific waters that came from the Imperial Valley county in California. Specifically, by using th…
Environmental Science
Second Award
Objectives/Goals This study examined the impact of human and domestic dog presence on the species richness and movement of mammals in habitat fragments within a suburban matrix and possible…
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to determine how ocean acidification affects copepod survivorship. Methods/Materials Copepod culture, microscope, digital pH meter, CO2 tank,…
Environmental Science
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of our research was to evaluate the public health threat of seven free-roaming cat colonies located in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. This goal was achieved…
Environmental Science
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Children are unwillingly and needlessly exposed to excessive amounts of microfine particulate matter (PM). This poses many health hazards, especially for children, the elder…
Environmental Science
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to investigate the claim that different plants absorb CO2 at different rates. My hypothesis was that the claim is true and that plants do abs…
Environmental Science
First Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine the correlation between distance from preschools to major highways and levels of ultrafine particulate matter in the surrounding…
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals We wanted to discover if there is a correlation between water concentration and liquefaction. Methods/Materials We used a shake table, water, sand, bucket, and a rock. To be…
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals We wanted to find out if levels of the nitrogen isotope 15N in Sitka spruce cores correlate with populations of past salmon runs in Freshwater Creek. Methods/Materials Corer…
Environmental Science
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine the effect of sediment on water quality in lakes and the marine organisms that inhabit it. Methods/Materials Sediment was collected from three…
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to test water samples from a well, a spring, and city pumped water to determine which results had the most contaminants. We are testing each…
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals The Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) uses ozone (O(3)) and particulate matter (PM(2.5))readings to issue their daily Air Quality Index (AQI), eclipsing the…
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals Determine how proximity to a roadway affects the water quality of bodies of water by measuring water quality at various different sites. Methods/Materials Bought and used Te…
Environmental Science
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals To attribute trends in black carbon, or BC, concentrations in personal exposure to micro-environments of certain conditions as accurately and reliably as possible, and to be…
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals The purpose of our experiment is to find a link between animals grazing on a plot of land and the biodiversity of native plants on that plot. Non-native/invasive plant speci…
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals This science fair project studies the movement of particles in relation to ocean current patterns. The purpose of this project was to determine whether the materials and com…
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals The objective of my experiment was to test how different types of fertilizers affect water quality and aquatic microorganisms. Methods/Materials To conduct this experiment,…
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine what tree's and bushes are the safest to plant near your home in case of a wildfire. Methods/Materials We tested ten different pl…
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals The Department of Environmental Health recommends waiting 72 hours before entering the water at our local beaches after a significant storm event. The purpose of my project…
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals Determination of how CO2 levels (the greenhouse effect) and organic carbon burial (the Monterey hypothesis) affected the climate of the Miocene Methods/Materials Sediments f…
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals Energy making-related emissions from power plants and other traditional fuels cause major respiratory and cardiovascular health risks. Producing reusable, environment-friend…
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to indicate if various Central Valley sources contain a safe level of nitrate and phosphate. Methods/Materials Water monitoring kit, 3 differe…
Environmental Science
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to determine what time of day, out of four times being tested, there would be a higher concentration of particulates in the air. Methods…
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine if there is a difference in nitrate and nitrite pollution levels in the natural bottom versus concretized sections of the Los Ang…
Environmental Science
Second Award
Objectives/Goals Algae blooms are becoming increasingly common worldwide and are environmentally and financially damaging. In this project, I wanted to find if Southern Californian waters ar…