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 · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Current dairy waste lagoon design often consists of flushing manure through solids settling ponds and then partial bacterial digestion in large, open-air lagoons. The high a…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to evaluate the coagulating properties both Moringa Oliefera seed kernel powder and Moringa Oliefera De-oiled seed powder and compare their ef…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to find out if straw with mushroom mycelium growing in it will be a better erosion control by retaining road sediment runoff better than…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Does adding oil to the top layer of soil reduce water loss from the soil? In arid regions such as southern California, water conservation is a vital issue. Applying the conc…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to explore methods of cleaning oil spills other than the major methods used (burning, biotechnology, and the use of biological agents). After…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Pollution is the greatest threat to our environment and health. The goal of this project is to find a good and an efficient way as an alternative of using fossil and nuclear…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals My statement of the problem is, Which material (sand, charcoal, or gravel) will best filter waste from creek water? My hypothesis was that the charcoal would work best at fi…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Some plants (called hyperaccumulators) have been shown to accumulate heavy metals from soil. The purpose of this experiment was to find out if lead in soil could be phytorem…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Phytoremediation has provided a safe and inexpensive mean of removing toxic chemicals from soil through the use of plants. A research on this topic done by Dr. Lena Ma of th…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Many peaple live without clean water. Governments recommend that people boil water, but they do not do that for the following reasons: 1)people don't believe in the germ the…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Our project's objective was to determine the effect of stream restoration on the aquatic macroinvertebrate community of Cummings Creek, Humboldt Co. CA. We predicted that th…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to find out which rip-rap material is best at preventing water erosion. The three barriers tested were wood rip-rap, rock rip-rap, and a plant…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The goals to this water recycling project is reduce the amount of impurities from water,& find the most efficient water recycling process. Methods/Materials Build a cylinder…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine whether or not there would be fewer bacterial colonies in contaminated water after being exposed to sunlight. I wanted to find and easy and inexp…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals My project is to determine if the solar energy can be trapped for our future needs. Based on my research, it was hypothesized that if a vertical salinity gradient layer is c…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals To find out whether the level of Carbon Monoxide emitted from car warm-up is hazardous to health. Methods/Materials MATERIALS: Safety Gas Mask; Carbon Monoxide Detector; Gar…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Crude oil is found in natural deposits and seeps all around the world. Crude oils are toxic and will affect the nervous system of animals that come in contact with it. I wan…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine the effects of ridgetop fuelbreaks (created by altering vegetation on the ridgetop) on the spread of wildfires, in a forested stand, on moderat…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of my experiment is to determine if the oil degrading activity of Pseudomonas bacteria can be enhanced by the introduction of ammoniated bagasse in an acquatic…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Methods/Materials I tested to see if growing Zinc absorbent plants is effective at reducing the large quantities of Zinc in the soil. My two treatment plants were Thlaspi and spinach and I h…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to observe the effect of Eichhornia crasspies and Cabomba caroliniana on algae growth as well as pH, nitrite, and phosphate levels in the…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals As no specific method of ozone prediction previously existed, we wanted to create one for use on high ozone days so it could be determined which hours of the day were safer…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The Goal of my project is to properly remove and dispose of the Toxic chemical Malathion from my filter Media. Methods/Materials Remove the Malathion trapped inside my filte…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals I believe that medium textured human hair will adsorb the most oil because it is not too coarse, but not too fine and thin. Methods/Materials First I collected different typ…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective is to explore the most cost effective, portable, box style solar oven that could be used in underdeveloped countries to pasteurize water or sterilize food. My…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Madrona Marsh, a vernal marsh in Torrance, California, has occasionally altered water quality in which there are raised levels of several nitrogen compounds. A possible solu…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to see if injecting air cleans the algae in pond water. I predicted that injecting air into pond water would reduce the amount of algae. Method…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to determine whether the natural purification action of a wetlands ecosystem causes a measurable improvement in the water quality. Water q…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals In this project I attempted to remove nitrites from water by designing a biological filter that would be able to oxidize nitrites into nitrates. The purpose of this project…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals THIS EXPERIMENT STUDIED THE QUESTION OF WHICH MICROORGANISM, MOLD OR BACTERIA WOULD DO BETTER IN THE BIOREMEDIATION PROCESS, BY REDUCING, ELIMINATING OR CONTAINING CONTAMINA…