Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists, and Geophysicists of Alberta
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The Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists, and Geophysicists of Alberta (APEGGA) is a professional association specific to the Canadian province of Alberta
. The association, which acts as a regulatory agency, derives its authority from Alberta statute. It was created in 1920.
APEGGA regulates the professions of engineering
, geology
and geophysics
in Alberta.
Alberta
Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...
. The association, which acts as a regulatory agency, derives its authority from Alberta statute. It was created in 1920.
APEGGA regulates the professions of engineering
Engineering
Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...
, geology
Geology
Geology is the science comprising the study of solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which it evolves. Geology gives insight into the history of the Earth, as it provides the primary evidence for plate tectonics, the evolutionary history of life, and past climates...
and geophysics
Geophysics
Geophysics is the physics of the Earth and its environment in space; also the study of the Earth using quantitative physical methods. The term geophysics sometimes refers only to the geological applications: Earth's shape; its gravitational and magnetic fields; its internal structure and...
in Alberta.