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 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…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals By performing this experiment, I hoped to find out in what types of environments wheat-based and corn-based biodegradable plastic spoons might or might not decompose. I also…
CSEF · 2003
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals A study was conducted to determine if water temperature, salinity, barometric pressure, substrate, precipitation and/or pollution factors effect sand crab and sandpiper popu…
CSEF · 2003
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective is to build a model of a desalination chamber and to extrapolate my findings to propose a desalination system feasible for residential communities. Methods/Mat…
CSEF · 2003
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective is to deduce the grazing rates of the toxic algal bloom, the isolation and culturing of the algea by using protozoan communities, and the usage of mescocosm ex…
CSEF · 2003
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals We are using up all our trees to make paper and soon we will start to run out of trees. I want to know if I can find a sustainable paper source that can be used to make writ…
CSEF · 2003
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Enough solar energy reaches the earth in a half hour to provide the world's energy needs for a year. My objective was to see how easy it is to capture solar energy and to de…
CSEF · 2003
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objectives in this experiment were to first determine the most effective fire-retardant and method to drop the fire-retardant so as to maximize survival of aquatic organ…
CSEF · 2003
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Eutrophication, the process by which a lake becomes rich in dissolved nutrients due to point and non-point pollutant sources, is a major cause of the loss of natural lake ec…
CSEF · 2003
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals To see if toxins such as Malathion can be filtered from water using natural waste products such as Almond, Pistachio and Walnut shells. Methods/Materials Gather Almond, Pist…
CSEF · 2003
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals This investigation centered on the effects of utilizing heat of condensation of water from an ambient source, induced by a structural net-matrix, on growth and crop developm…
CSEF · 2003
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals I believe that I can get lots of fresh water out of the ocean through Reverse Osmosis using the equivalent natural water pressure of the deep ocean, I believe this will be g…
CSEF · 2003
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals My objective or goal of this experiment was to see how runoff affected the growth and development of Artemia Nyos, a type of brine shrimp very closely realted to the type of…
CSEF · 2003
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to find out how the soil's gradient, the type of soil, the flow rate of water, and the presence of plants affect erosion. Methods/Materials…
CSEF · 2003
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals My objective was to see if the application of direct electrical charged plates would reduce the amount of impurities from different samples of water. I believed that the pro…
CSEF · 2003
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals My project is a study of solar energy collection. California has been faced with an energy crisis. Could solar energy provide a possible solution? I believe it could, but I…
CSEF · 2003
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to quantify classroom radon concentrations in the schools of the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District (PVPUSD), in order to determ…
CSEF · 2003
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Observing air quality and visibility in Los Angeles, the following was found: Air was more polluted and visibility was lower before than after rain. Hypothesis: water can cl…
CSEF · 2003
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals My objective is to determine which cellulosic waste product (newspaper, grass and eucalyptus sawdust) produces the greatest amount of ethanol through concentrated acid hydro…
CSEF · 2003
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals This year I am running PCRs and gels to try and detect the transgene for Roundup Ready resistance. This gene is inserted into the DNA and it make the plant resistant to Roun…
CSEF · 2003
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals To find if Salt Cedar trees effect the salinity of the Mojave River. Methods/Materials Standard method; go to study sites, and collect Total Dissolved Solids information, us…