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CSEF · 2002

How Biodegradable Is Our Garbage?

Environmental Engineering

Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if paper, plastic, and organic material in household garbage is biodegradable. Methods/Materials We collected household garbage from our homes.…

CSEF · 2002

Landfills to Life

Environmental Engineering

Objectives/Goals Our Planet is plagued by more and more landfills by the day. My objective was to help reduce the amount of waste that goes into our landfills by experimenting with common la…

CSEF · 2002

Melting Mountains: The Process of Erosion

Environmental Engineering

Objectives/Goals My project was to determine if hillside vineyards covered with a layer of mulch will have less erosion than soil covered with straw, seeded with erosion control mix or left…

CSEF · 2002

Non-Chemical Methods of Sterilizing Water

Environmental Engineering

Objectives/Goals My experiment tested the effectiveness of non-chemical water sterilization processes.I believed that non-chemical methods could be just as effective as the standard methods…

CSEF · 2002

Oil Spill Clean-up: Moving or Removing Oil?

Environmental Engineering

Objectives/Goals The purpose of my investigation into oil spill clean-up was to find the best method of clean-up. My definition of best method included: removal of the greatest percentage of…

CSEF · 2002

Removing Water Pollution with Plants

Environmental Engineering

Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to find out which of three water plants absorbs the most nitrates and phosphates in water. The three plants I used were: Ceratophyllum demersum…

CSEF · 2002

Surviving Oil Spills

Environmental Engineering

Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to determine which filtering material works the best when filtering a mixture of oil and water to aid in oil spill clean-up. Methods/Materia…

CSEF · 2002

The Ash Absorber

Environmental Engineering

Objectives/Goals My objective was to see if adding wood ashes to soil would help the soil to retain moisture and herbicides better, and if so, which type of ashes worked better. Methods/Mate…

CSEF · 2002

Water, Filtration, and Microorganisms

Environmental Engineering

Objectives/Goals Our project sought to determine if water samples filtered with a two-stage filtration system would exhibit less of an enteric bacteria colony count when compared to unfilter…

CSEF · 2002

Water: Going, Going, Going, Gone

Environmental Engineering

Objectives/Goals My objective was to find out which of following substances would reduce or prevent water evaporation: Mazola Canola Oil, Downey Fabric Softener, Heinz Vinegar, HUMCO Glyceri…

CSEF · 2002

Water Wizardry

Environmental Engineering

Objectives/Goals If you apply two thermal desalination methods to a sample of water each from a creek, lagoon, sound, ocean, and river, which method produces the most mineral-free water? Met…

CSEF · 2002

World Wide Shortage of Fresh Water

Environmental Engineering

Objectives/Goals A Seventh grader discovers through research that drinking water is not cheap and is also in short supply, potentially a problem for our society, particularly here in San Die…

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