38,465 real projects from ISEF, the Canada-Wide Science Fair, JSHS, AJAS, the Calgary Youth Science Fair and the California Science & Engineering Fair — searchable by meaning, and filterable by fair, year, category and award.
CSEF · 2006
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project is to find a filter which is made out of biological materials, which are effective in filtering out both nitrate and phosphorous levels from agricultu…
CSEF · 2006
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Expanded polystyrene (EPS), commonly referred to as Styrofoam, is a non-biodegradable plastic that is difficult to recycle by standard methods. As such, rapidly growing amou…
CSEF · 2006
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Can a solar oven be built to cook food at a certain temperature? A solar oven can use energy directly from the sun to cook food. My objective was to build a solar oven that…
CSEF · 2006
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this field study is to show that the lettuces grew in California are contaminated with perchlorate since the water that used to cultivate these lettuces is al…
CSEF · 2006
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals To find how bad the air quality was for the cities: Orange, Anaheim Hills, Anaheim, Fullerton, Villa Park. To find the average for each city and compare it against the natio…
CSEF · 2006
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals My goal is to remove pesticides from farm run off water with plants and air. I hope to filter the chemical out of the run off water before releasing the water into rivers. M…
CSEF · 2006
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my science project is to determine what material absorbs motor oil spills the best. I believe that cat litter will absorb the motor oil spill the best because…
CSEF · 2006
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals My objective was to discover which shape of parabolic solar oven, between a trough and a cone, would reach a higher temperature quicker, and if insulation would make a diffe…
CSEF · 2006
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals In my experiment I tested which type of levee is more efficient in flood prevention, an I-wall or an earthen levee. I hypothesized that the I-wall levee would hold longer. M…
CSEF · 2006
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of our project is to determine whether building a subsurface constructed flow wetland in the Soquel Creek/Capitola Beach will reduce the e.coli and total colif…
CSEF · 2005
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals My experiment attempted to answer the question #Do varying pH levels affect shelled creatures in the ocean?# Through my research I discovered that the ocean#s pH level was 8…
CSEF · 2005
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals I'm trying to fird out which diesel fuel works the best on a CAT tractor from the 1970? Because I'v learnd that there are other types of diesel that our natural fuels. My hy…
CSEF · 2005
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The object of this experiment is to determine if an #antifreeze# can be created out of frost hardy plants by grinding them and extracting juice. Methods/Materials A containe…
CSEF · 2005
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Nitrogen Pollution is caused by the leaching of nitrate fertilizers. When watering plants, much of the water is not absorbed and drains through the soil. As the water flows…
CSEF · 2005
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine whether or not urban contaminants have a negative effect on the health and safety of the Santa Ana River and if pollution increases as one trav…
CSEF · 2005
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project was to determine how key physical and chemical parameters such as carbon:nitrogen ratio, moisture, and aeration, affect biodegradation efficiency an…
CSEF · 2005
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of my study was to do determine preventative measures to urban trees destroying nearby sidewalk via root growth. I believe that a combination of large trees, s…
CSEF · 2005
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals My objective was to prove two things: the effects of the filtering and screening processes standard in sewage disinfection plants, and the best disinfecting agents used in t…
CSEF · 2005
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment was to measure the rate of respiration in mL of carbon dioxide produced per hour in a sample of mixed liquor from the secondary wastewater treat…
CSEF · 2005
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective was to determine whether a model of the Stenocara beetle, which harvests all of its water from desert fog, would collect more or less water vapor than models o…
CSEF · 2005
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The project's purpose tested a new way to suppress anthropogenic atmospheric PM-10 with water. I believe that a spray device attached to a farm disc with proximal water deli…
CSEF · 2005
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The goal was to test the affects of increased phytoplankton growth due to iron fertilization on the amount of dissolved oxygen below the water surface of an ocean environmen…
CSEF · 2005
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The basis of my project was to investigate if natural seawater was comparable to artificially prepared solutions in providing an efficient means of hydrogen production throu…
CSEF · 2005
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Determine if implementation of State of California Senate Bill No. 923 has resulted in causing lower nitrates in agricultural effluents into the Monterey Bay Sanctuary. Meth…
CSEF · 2005
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of my experiment was to determine an economical and efficient method of nitrate removal in an acute situation of nitrate intrusion by analyzing the chemical or…
CSEF · 2005
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals A way to easily determine the feasibility of any method of preserving water quality in a specific water body is critical for the large-scale implementation of the method. It…
CSEF · 2005
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective was to develop a method to naturally recycle impure water in an economic, environmentally friendly, easily maintainable, and efficient process. Methods/Materia…
CSEF · 2005
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective was to find out if the temperature of the water used to cool the condensation plate of a homemade solar powered desalination device affects the amount of desal…
CSEF · 2005
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals This experiment was conducted in order to find the effects of different concentrations of two anionic Polyacrylamides, Amber 1200 and Stockopam, on water infiltration and fl…
CSEF · 2005
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of my experiment is to identify and contras adapted chemical components of the same species of algae in environmentally different areas. The algae samples were…