EWB Weekly Email: Week 11

Remote Lab Information

Due to COVID-19, Purdue University classes are moving to an online format which will also include our EPICS lab. Please read the following important announcements to understand how lab will work for the remainder of the semester.

· You are still required to log on remotely to lab each Wednesday from 6:00 pm - 7:50 pm EST. (Please be aware of how time zones will affect your log in time).

· Due to the increase in email communication, please use the following subject tag line followed by the specific subject matter when communicating club matters.

o EPICS-EWB:

· Lab logistics:  This section is extremely important!

o Pigs will still be presented during lab therefore everyone should join the main meeting room call for the first ten minutes of lab

§ Link to EWB General Meeting Room for PIGS:

§ https://purdue-student.webex.com/meet/hmaccabe

o Following pigs we will break out into individual meeting rooms. 

§ Leadership Team:

§ https://purdue-student.webex.com/meet/hmaccabe

§ Technical Design Team: 

§ General Technical Design Team Room:

§ https://purdue-student.webex.com/meet/byerse

§ Spring 1 Subteam Meeting Room: 

§ https://purdue-student.webex.com/meet/cordes1

§ Spring 2 Subteam Meeting Room:

§ https://purdue-student.webex.com/meet/gmang

§ Spring 4 Subteam Meeting Room: 

§ https://purdue-student.webex.com/meet/lewis427

§ Human Centered Design Team:

§ General Human Centered Design Team Room:

§ https://meetingsamer2.webex.com/meetingsamer2/j.php?MTID=m92b523bef0783d17a00465bf1c27f522

§ Media Subteam Meeting Room:

§ https://purdue-student.webex.com/purdue-student/j.php?MTID=m5b4afe90ecb677fddc8f6da34dea025e

§ Business Development Design Team:

§ https://purdue-student.webex.com/meet/lsparber

§ Chapter Development Design Team:

§ https://purdue-student.webex.com/meet/kbroders 

§ New Member Design Team: 

§ https://purdue-student.webex.com/meet/mneedle

· Design Meeting logistics will be organized individually by design leads.  They should be in contact with you to explain how your meetings will work. 

· Weekly notebooks will still be required for all EPICS members and will become even more important during this time to help advisors and TAs understand team and individual progress and contributions to the project.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to reach out to the leadership team!
Peace, love, and please stay safe EWB Purdue!!

Important Annoucements

• All members should now be using Slack instead of GroupMe!
• Officer Nominations are due Wednesday, April 1st at 11:59 pm
• https://forms.gle/z9EAst8qMc3XPrhG9
• Please fill out the following survey to help the New Members with their Newsletter Project
• https://forms.gle/wg5EuUXuLupWDL947
• The Purdue World Water Day Event has moved to an online format.  If you are interested in learning more about the event please see the Purdue World Water Day 2020 Facebook Page.
• Please fill out your donor information for the Business Development team from last semester's crowdfunding campaign. 
• https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15m9OUycMUUx_F8RC2Qt2tKCbfGo4IM-vgFSg0ECDC98/edit#gid=0

Bolivian Culture Spotlight

The Noel Kempff Mercado National Park is located in the northeast section of the Santa Cruz department of Bolivia bordering the country of Brazil. In 1988, the Bolivian government declared a 250 square miles section of undisturbed land as the national park. It is named in honor of a conservation biologist Noel Kempff Mercado who recognized the global significance of the area enough to propose a campaign to preserve it. The United Nations later designated the national park a World Heritage Site.

Today, the park covers over 6,000 square miles and is one of the largest, most intact parks in the Amazon Basin. Noel Kempff is home to 139 different mammal species, 74 reptile species, 62 amphibian species, 254 fish species, and over 4,000 different plant species.

With an abundance of trees in the area, the park became the site of controversial deforestation and logging operations. In 1996, the Noel Kempff Climate Action project was started to terminate logging rights in the area. The group also closely monitors socioeconomics impacts, number of tress in Noel Kempff Mercado, and the rate of deforestation. Overall, the project has avoided 1,034,107 tons of CO2 emissions, which would have been caused by logging and deforestation between 1997 and 2005.






Source: https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/latin-america/bolivia/noel-kempff-mercado-national-park/

Random Fact Tuesday

Until 2016, the “Happy Birthday” song was not for the public use.  Meaning, prior to 2016, the song was copyrighted and you were supposed to pay a license to use it.

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