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The use of Red Sea algae as a fertilizer to improve sandy soils in Saudi Arabia

Organization(s):The 61st Secondary Girls School at Jeddah
Country:Saudi Arabia
Student(s):1. Sara Kashgari 2. Basma Alsanie 3. Shahad Alshehri
Grade Level:Secondary School (grades 9-12, ages 14-18)
GLOBE Teacher:Hussa Mohammad Al-Saheel
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Report Type(s):International Virtual Science Symposium Report
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Optional Badges:I am a Collaborator, I make an Impact, I am a Data Scientist
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Date Submitted:03/20/2017
Since the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is one of the largest sand deserts in the world and one of the algae producing countries, this research focused on how to use the Red Sea algae as a fertilizer and to improve the quality of sandy soil . In this research, we suggest that algae can be really helpful to improve the sandy soil for cultivation


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Comments

Victoria Treadaway
6 Years Ago - Edited
Very interesting! I like that you are considering how to use the resources you have to your benefit. In your conclusion you mention additional experiments, do you have any examples?

Also, it is a little unclear from your experiment what the algae was used for? I see you dried things in the oven but when did you add the algae?
Hussa Mohammad Al-Saheel Victoria Treadaway
6 Years Ago
Dear miss victoria treadaway
We've put the sandy soil in the oven so we can measure
The amount of microorganisms that's in the soil and after taking The soil out of the oven and measuring the amount of microorganisms we left it aside and brought three new samples of sandy soil and added algae to the three pots The first pot of algae was chopped the second pot was grinded And the third the algae was added without chopping or grinding, we used the algae as a fertiliser because Algae contains high proportion of plant hormones which are missing in the sandy soil that's in our country..