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In Biology 20

Biology · OPIsystems (OPI)
How can you spot a grain bin starting to spoil before the damage is visible?
Prepared for Photosynthesis and cellular respiration.
Calgary operating contact/support location; company describes engineering, production and product-support teams. Farms and grain bins are customer sites, not claimed to be in Calgary.
- Biology 20
3 roles · 2 pathways
Biology · O2 Planning and Design
How can a park help clean stormwater before it reaches a river?
Prepared for Ecosystems and population change.
Calgary studio; the featured project is Dale Hodges Park in Calgary.
- Biology 20
3 roles · 3 pathways
Biology · WaterSMART — a Hazen company
How do you plan water supplies for a city that keeps changing?
Prepared for Energy and matter exchange in the biosphere.
Calgary-based work is established through the City’s named roadmap partnership and the company team page.
- Biology 20
3 roles · 3 pathways
Biology · ISL Engineering
How can a road cross a creek without ignoring the landscape?
Prepared for Ecosystems and population change.
The featured road, creek crossing and pathways are in Calgary; ISL identifies the City as client.
- Biology 20
3 roles · 4 pathways
Biology · AERIUM Analytics
Can a bird-shaped drone help reduce airport wildlife hazards?
Prepared for Ecosystems and population change.
Calgary head office; the cited airport deployment is outside Calgary.
- Biology 20
3 roles · 3 pathways
Biology · Wilder Institute
Can helping individual owls help a population recover?
Prepared for Ecosystems and population change.
Connected to the Calgary Zoo. Field program in southeastern Alberta.
- Biology 20
- Biology 30
3 roles · 5 pathways

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Other courses

Physics · Standen’s (IMT)
Why can a steel spring bend repeatedly without staying bent?
Calgary manufacturing facility stated on current company homepage.
- Physics 20
3 roles · 2 pathways
Chemistry · NanoTess
How would you test whether a material changes a chemical process?
Federal grant record identifies Calgary laboratory/production scale-up; current company funding release describes ongoing materials development.
- Chemistry 30
3 roles · 2 pathways
Physics · Global Power Technologies
How can a temperature difference produce electricity without a spinning turbine?
Company explicitly identifies manufacturing locations in Calgary and Bassano; preserve the distinction.
- Science 10
3 roles · 2 pathways
Physics · Hifi Engineering
How can a long fibre help locate a disturbance along a pipeline?
Company team page describes Calgary origins and engineering disciplines; current product release identifies Calgary headquarters and sensor work.
- Physics 30
3 roles · 2 pathways
Chemistry · BURNCO
How do you make a concrete batch suitable for the job it has to do?
Current employer locations identify Calgary corporate, dispatch and Four Star operations; wider-region sites kept separate.
- Science 10
3 roles · 2 pathways
Physics · EFW Radiology
How can an echo help make a picture of something inside the body?
Uxborough clinic in Calgary explicitly lists general ultrasound; employer explains the technique.
- Physics 20
2 roles · 2 pathways
Physics · Alberta Boot Company
How do material and shape choices change the way a boot performs?
Own store and custom-boot pages identify Calgary factory/workshop and cutting, stitching, shaping and finishing.
- Physics 20
2 roles · 2 pathways
Physics · FFA Consultants in Acoustics and Noise Control
Why is speech clear in one room and hard to understand in another?
Calgary consulting office offers room-acoustic measurements, modelling and noise-control design.
- Physics 20
2 roles · 2 pathways
Physics · ENMAX
Why use the heat left over from making electricity to make more electricity?
Company identifies Shepard Energy Centre in southeast Calgary; joint venture with Capital Power, operated by ENMAX.
- Science 10
3 roles · 3 pathways
Chemistry · MOBILTEX
How can electrical measurements show whether buried steel is protected from corrosion?
Employer offers equipment training at its Calgary headquarters, with installation, commissioning and maintenance tasks.
- Chemistry 30
3 roles · 2 pathways
Physics · ICE Western
How can a building bring fresh air in without losing all its heat?
Employer identifies industrial manufacturing facility in Calgary's South Foothills.
- Science 10
3 roles · 3 pathways
Physics · Congebec
How do you keep food cold while moving it through a busy warehouse?
Operating cold-storage location listed at 5500 72 Avenue SE, Calgary.
- Science 10
3 roles · 2 pathways

The library holds 46 researched Calgary-connected examples. Each example records its sources, local connection and research date. Units without a prepared example say so honestly. Unit names follow Alberta Education programs of studies.