The trough that FindSADs detected is the
"blob" above the upper left part of the sun. This trough is
detected in five consecutive frames, but the next program we run the
data through says that no trajectories exist. That is the problem
we're trying to solve.
Friday June 27
I am super excited to report that our problem has been solved!
Sabrina sent an e-mail this morning saying that she has been meaning to
add a new keyword to her program that might help us out.
Traject_search bases the pixoff values by the major axes of the
flows. The new keyword allows us to use a bigger percentage of
the axis size. At first I thought this new keyword was still not
finding anything but when I tried changing the pixel resolution on top
of the the new keyword the program detected a trajectory for our
troughs. What a fantastic way to start the day! After
finding the trajectory for the 000101 flare, which was a small side
project to make sure our programs were working correctly, I went back
to my real data. I had already created new maps for the 980420,
031104, and the 020421 flares so I started with those first. I
found trajectories for both the 980420 and the 031104 flares, but not
for the 020421 data. After lunch I started on the 020723
data. I had to create a new map and resharpen the data following
all of my usual steps before I could run the data through FindSADs,
combine_troughs, and traject_search. I had some problems
sharpening this data, however, so I moved on to the 010402 data.
I found trajectories for this data but then got a new error message for
traject_search. Since right now we only care about whether or not
trajectories are being found, I moved on to the 000712 flares.
The first flare on July 12 had no trajectories and I did not finishing
running the second flare through all of the programs.
Monday June 30
I started my morning out by finishing the second flare from
000712. I did find trajectories for this particular flare.
After that I went back to the 020723 flare to find out what was wrong
with the sharpened data. After deleting the bad images I had a
nice looking movie so I ran the images through Sabrina's
programs. This flare had no trajectories. I sent David an
e-mail earlier this morning telling him I would need new data soon so
he gave me a list of flares that I tried to download. Some of the
flares I could not get data on:
980509 (03:00-07:00 UT)
980816 (17:30-21:00 UT) - No data
980818 (22:00-23:59 UT) - No data
980930 (13:00-16:00 UT) - No data
990120 (19:00-23:59 UT) - No data
990508 (10:30-13:00 UT)
000805 (23:00-August 7th 23:59 UT)
010403 (03:00-10:00 UT)
010404 (09:30-12:00 UT)
The flare on August 5th covered three days and I had trouble
downloading the data because there is a restriction on how much data I
can get at once. That being said, I decided to download the data
later when I finish with the other flares. I spent the rest of
the afternoon running as much of the above data as possible. I
found no flows for 980509 and 010403, but I did find them for
990508. I started running the 010404 data, but I did not finish
it.
Tuesday July 1
Just like every other Tuesday, I started my day with a lecture on
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Sun
and my Hinode meeting. The lecture this morning was on observing
the sun or chapter nine. At the Hinode meeting, David said that
Sabrina and him were confused as to why changing the pixel resolution
fixed the traject_search problem. He was happy that the program
is finding the trajectories but said that Sabrina and I would probably
sort out why this fixes our problem when she returns from vacation
tomorrow. After both of these events this morning, I went back to
running the rest of my data through Sabrina's programs. The first
flare, 010404, had no trajectories. Before I could start the
000805 data, I had to download all of the images from
LASCO's
website. This took way longer than expected because I can
only download so much data at once. There were a ton of images
since this flare is on three different days so I had to download the
images in groups. This took up much of my afternoon.
Once it was all downloaded I started sharpening the data.
Wednesday July 2
I spent all morning and part of the afternoon at a coalignment
workshop. Professors and grad students gave talks on how they
have coaligned images because of differences in resolution,
instruments, etc. I also talked to Sabrina and David this
morning. Sabrina is planning to look at the traject_search
program before Monday to see why changing the pixel resolution is
fixing our problem. Until then I am supposed to start
analyzing the flares I have already worked on, but instead
of working with LASCO data, I will be analyzing the flares using SXT
(Soft X-ray Telescope) or TRACE (Transition Region and Coronal
Explorer) data. I spent some of the afternoon looking at
Letisha
McLaughlin's website to see what data she has already analyzed
using either SXT or TRACE. Letisha was the REU student working
with David and Sabrina in 2006 and 2007. Just to show all of my
results in one place, an updated table is below:
Flare
|
Trajectories
|
980420*
|
Yes
|
031104
|
Yes
|
020421**
|
None
|
020723
|
None
|
010402*
|
Yes
|
000712
(first flare)
|
None
|
000712
(second flare)*
|
Yes
|
980509*
|
None
|
990508*
|
Yes
|
000805
|
|
010403
|
None
|
010404
|
None
|
A * above means Letisha has done some SXT analysis on these
flares. ** means that she analyzed some TRACE data.
Thursday July 3
A group of REU students took the day off to spend a four day weekend at
Glacier National Park. It was amazing!
Monday July 7
When I came to work this morning I realized that I never finished the
000805 LASCO data because of other tasks that came up. I spent
the morning creating a map.
It took quite awhile because there are a lot of images for that
flare. I was going to run the data through FindSADs, but then I
did not know what to do about the pixel resolution problem. I was
not going to run the data through combine_troughs and
traject_search until Sabrina and I figure out what is wrong with
traject_search but I never got to that point anyway. We have a
meeting this afternoon so hopefully we
can finally resolve that problem. I spent the rest of the morning
looking over Letisha's website for information on the flares I am
working with. I also tried to figure out how to get SXT and TRACE
data. Sabrina's manual gives a quick overview, but some of it is
unclear. Finally I retried the 000101 data to see if it would
work without changing the pixel resolution, but no trajectory was found
for the very clear SAD. Sabrina and I will have a lot to talk
about this afternoon. During our meeting Sabrina
said she wanted me to run all of the above flares through FindSADs
again. I also need to recreate a new map for each one.
Instead of using an entire image, I will be using sub_map to make the
images smaller and then I will zoom in on the image. After this,
the data will be sharpened and ran through FindSADs again. After
this is done for all of the flares, we will go from there. I
started this process with the first flare, 980420.
Tuesday July 8
I didn't have any lectures or meetings this morning which is very
unusual for a Tuesday. I went back to work on the 980420 flare
this morning but after creating a map, resizing the data, and
sharpening the data, I found that there were still bad images in my
set. I sent Sabrina a quick message because she said this would
no longer be a problem because of the method I am now using. I
might have an idea for fixing it it, but I wanted to double check with
her. While I waited for a response, I went through and created a
data cube for each flare. I got a response from Sabrina and she
said exactly what I was thinking. I spent the afternoon removing
the bad images from 980420's data but when it came time to run the data
through FindSADs I kept getting errors. IDL kept saying that the
variable sind was undefined, but it is defined, it is zero. I've
had this problem before but I've always been able to fix it
easily. I spent all afternoon fighting this battle but no matter
what I did, FindSADs would not run. It has been a very
frustrating afternoon. After I could not take anymore of those
stupid errors, I tried moving on to 031104 thinking maybe I kept
getting errors because something was wrong with the 980420 data.
Nope. Still no progress.
Wednesday July 9
Sabrina sent me an e-mail last night so now I have a few ideas for what
to do with the 980420 data. After extracting a sub region, I need
to make the images bigger. This should give the data a lower
pixel resolution. I finished doing this for the 980420 flare, but
then FindSADs kept printing out the same error still. While I
wait to see what is wrong with that, I started creating maps for the
rest of the data and sharpening the images. Sabrina sent me
another e-mail after lunch saying that she fixed the FindSADs program
but has no idea how it got like that because the program should never
have been able to run if that error always existed. That being
said, I finished running all of the flares from the table above through
the sharpen_flows program. Then I ran 980420, 031104, and 020421
through FindSADs. Sabrina told me earlier that the extractions I
have been using for all of the flares may still be too large. We
have a meeting tomorrow afternoon and she said she will show me what
she means by this when we meet. I will probably have more to say
about that tomorrow when I figure out how to change them and why they
are too big in the first place.
Thursday July 10
I started my morning by attending the last lecture on
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Sun.
Today's lecture was on the connection between the sun and the
earth. After this, I started running the rest of the flares
through FindSADs. I started with 020723 and worked my way down
the list above. Later this afternoon, when I meet with Sabrina, I
will probably resize all of the maps again, resharpen the data, and
then run all of the flares through FindSADs yet again. When I ran
all of the flares through FindSADs today, I skipped 010402 because that
flare has two bad frames and it only has four frames to begin
with. Also, when I was running all of these flares through
FindSADs, I kept getting an error. FindSADs had already detected
the troughs so I ignored the errors, but I think Sabrina is probably
right about the extractions being too large. The error that
printed was arithmetic error: floating underflow. The reason I
think this might be more of an issue is because when I try to run the
next flare through FindSADs, I have to retall or FindSADs won't
run. This means that FindSADs is still running from the last
flare and never finished what it was doing. That being said, I
only finished running the following flares: 020723 and 000712 (first
and second flares). After that, I decided to try extracting
smaller regions instead of wasting time running the data through
FindSADs when it is going to have to be done again anyway. I
started with the 980420 flare. I extracted a much smaller
section, blew the image up, and then resharpened the data.
This afternoon I had a meeting with Sabrina. She showed me how
big of a region to extract from my data. Then she gave me a
little bit more direction for my project. Right now I am going to
go through each of the flares above and extract a region, blow it up,
and then run it through FindSADs. If I detect any troughs, I am
going to work on the same flare but in SXT and TRACE. That way I
can work more towards seeing if any of the downflows match up in the
different instruments. That being said, I am starting back at the
beginning with the 980420 LASCO data. Also, I am now saving the
srfmaps like I used to instead of the rmaps. While I waited for
Sabrina to respond to a question I had about getting SXT data, I also
ran the LASCO data for 031104 through FindSADs after extracting a
smaller region. After hearing back from Sabrina, I downloaded the
SXT data for 980420 and created a data cube.
Friday July 11
This morning I started with the 980420 SXT data. When I
downloaded the data yesterday, I was only able to get full images as
opposed to partial images; therefore, when I started today, I had to
extract a smaller region and then blow it up. After that I ran
the data through FindSADs. The program detected troughs just like
it did for the LASCO data, but I don't think any of those are actually
SADs that line up with the LASCO data so I moved on to the 031104 SXT
data. Unfortunately, when I searched the
SXT archives they
only went through 2001. Since I could not get SXT data for this
flare, I moved to the 020421 LASCO data. There is no SXT
data for 020421 since it was in 2002 so I moved on to the 020723 LASCO
data. Since there is also no SXT data for 020723, I moved to the
000712 flares after I finished the 020723 LASCO data. After I
finished with the 000712 LASCO data, I started the SXT data for these
flares. I downloaded all of the fits files, but then I realized I
already had info in my directories. Sabrina had used this flare
to train me my first week so all of the SXT data already exists for
000712. Instead of continuing on with more flares, I decided to
to work on the 980420 flare and the 000712 data because I have both
LASCO and SXT data for these flares. There are a couple of
different things I want to try with these images so we'll see if this
works...No luck. I tried blowing up the LASCO data even more for
the 980420 flare, but that was definitely a bad idea. Time to
move on. I started working with the LASCO data for the 980509
flare and ended the day by running the data through FindSADs.
Monday July 14
Since I finished the 980509 LASCO data last week, I started my day by
downloading the SXT data for this flare. This took way
longer than expected because I finally found a way to download the
partial images instead of the full images but there is a ton of
data. I have been wanting to get the partial images because
that's originally what Sabrina said to get but I was never able to find
a way to obtain the data in that form until today. Now I am using
ftp to download all the data to my directories. It took me quite
awhile to figure this out. After getting all of the 980509 SXT
data, I started creating a map, sharpening the data, etc. When I
tried to compile the FindSADs program, however, it wouldn't compile and
a weird error that I had never seen before kept showing up. It
said that FSNONE is already defined with a conflicting
definition. While waiting for Sabrina to sort that out, I went
back to the 980420 and 000712 flares to see if I could get some new SXT
data in the form of partial images. Sabrina sent me an e-mail
saying that she was working on the program when I tried to run it which
is why I got an error. That being said, I ran the SXT data for
980509 and the troughs that were detected seem like they might match up
well with the LASCO data! After this I went back to downloading
the SXT data for the other two flares because I never finished
that. After I downloaded all of that data, I ran the 980420 SXT
data through FindSADs. I also chose to make a map for the 128x128
images. I've been working with the 64x64 images because there are
more of them, but I might try running the bigger images tomorrow.
Tuesday July 15
I started today by trying to run the 128x128 images for the 980420
flare through the sharpen_flows program. I noticed that there
were tons of bad images and the video was shaking a lot. I
decided to not try that size and I moved on to the 000712
SXT data. Once I created maps and sharpened the data, I tried to
run the data through, but FindSADs decided not to work this
morning. Sabrina made a bunch of changes to all of her programs
so she warned me late yesterday afternoon that I would probably
encounter some errors. She fixed the problem pretty quickly so I
went back to running that data. When I finished with that I moved
to the 990508 LASCO data. When I finished with that I started
downloading the 990508 SXT data. After I ran the SXT data
through, I moved on to the 000805 LASCO data. Next I downloaded
the 000805 SXT data. When I created a data cube, I found out that
there were over 600 64x64 images and over 800 128x128 images. I
decided, therefore, to run both sets of images. The 128x128 set
looked like it had a bunch of bad images so I moved on to the 64x64
images. I think that I might actually need to be extracting a
region so that I am using images with the same filter and resolution,
but the commands for that in Sabrina's manual haven't been working so I
assumed because the data was already prepped I did not need to do that
step. I think I will be asking her about that tomorrow because I
only have two flares left and then I will need to meet with her
anyway. After this realization, I moved on to the 010403 LASCO
data. After finishing running that through FindSADs, I downloaded
all the SXT data for 010403. Then I created a map that was
64x64. I also talked to Sabrina before I left and she said the
extraction was meant to be for unprepped data, but she would think
about it tonight; therefore, everything is fine and I can start with
the TRACE data tomorrow for all of my flares.
Wednesday July 16
Sabrina sent me a message last night saying that the program does not
work for already prepped fits files. She said for now I could
just use
the rm_bad_files program to remove the filters/resolutions I don't
want. I tried using this
program for 010403 but it requires me to type in the files I want to
remove by
hand. There are over a thousand images. After I finished
doing this, I still had files I did not want in the data. Since
it took me forever to do this and it still did not work, I decided to
just download the SXT data for 010404 and then move on to the TRACE
data for my flares. I will probably have to go
through the flares again for the SXT data since there are filters and
resolutions I do not want included in my data but hopefully I can come
up with a better method of doing this later. I then downloaded
all of the
TRACE
data for the following flares: 980420, 031104, 020421,
020723, 010402. I stopped with the TRACE data there and went back
to redo the SXT data for all of my flares because Sabrina created a new
program to extract the correct data. I started back at the 980420
flare. I made a map for the 64x64, Full_Al12_1.00s
extraction
(resolution, filter used, exposure time), sharpened that data, and ran
it through FindSADs.
Thursday July 17
I started my day by going to a talk about what to expect in grad
school. After that, I realized I never ran the 010404 LASCO data
so I decided to do that before moving back to the SXT data. Next
I went back to the 980420 SXT data to see if there were any other
extractions I wanted to run through FindSADs. Instead of trying
to keep track of everything I have done by typing it all up in
paragraph form, I decided to make a table for the SXT data. These
aren't all of the extractions that I took, but after looking at each
extraction, some of them did not looking promising; therefore, these
are only the extractions I ran through FindSADs. The promising
column means whether or not the troughs found in SXT might match up
with
the LASCO troughs.
Flare
|
Size
|
Extraction
|
Promising
|
980420
|
64x64
|
Full_Al12_1.00s
|
No
|
64x64
|
Half_Al12_1.00s
|
No
|
000712
(first flare)
|
64x64
|
Full_Al12_1.00s
|
No
|
128x128
|
Full_Al12_1.00s
|
No
|
128x128
|
Full_Be119_1.00s
|
No
|
000712 (second flare)
|
64x64
|
Full_Al12_1.00s
|
No
|
64x64
|
Full_AlMg_1.00s
|
No
|
64x64
|
Full_Be119_1.00s
|
No
|
128x128
|
Full_Al12_1.00s
|
No
|
980509
|
64x64
|
Full_Al12_1.00s
|
No
|
64x64
|
Half_Al12_1.00s
|
No
|
128x128
|
Full_Al12_1.00s
|
No
|
990508
|
64x64
|
Full_Al.1_1.00s
|
No
|
| 64x64 |
Full_Al12_1.00s |
No |
64x64
|
Full_AlMg_1.00s
|
No
|
64x64
|
Full_Be119_1.00s
|
No
|
192x192
|
Full_AlMg_1.00s
|
No
|
000805
|
64x64
|
Full_Al.1_1.00s
|
No
|
64x64
|
Full_Al12_1.00s
|
No
|
64x64
|
Full_AlMg_1.00s
|
No
|
010403
|
64x64
|
Full_Be119_1.00s
|
No
|
010404
|
64x64
|
Full_Al12_1.00s
|
No
|
64x64
|
Full_Be119_1.00s
|
No
|
128x128
|
Full_Al12_1.00s
|
No
|
128x128
|
Full_AlMg_1.00s
|
No
|
Friday July 18
I started today finishing the SXT data
for 980509. After that I started working my way through the rest
of the table above. I just added all of my results from today to
the table above so that all of the SXT data would be in one
place. I want to look more at the 010403 data on Monday because
there might be a connection between the LASCO and SXT data for that
flare. I also determined what extractions I wanted to use for the
010404 flare, but I didn't run them through FindSADs yet.
Monday July 21
I started my day by making some tables of information for
Sabrina. My tables included all of the flares I've been working
on
and the directories they are located in. One of the tables I
created was basically the table above. I also created a table
with a list of the other flares that I will be looking at TRACE data
for. After that I looked back at the 010403 SXT and LASCO
data. I don't know what I was looking at on Friday, but I don't
think there is any connection between the two. When I was done
looking at that, I moved to the 010404 SXT data. The results are
in the table above. After that, I realized I needed to redownload
some of the TRACE data. I didn't select a specific filter the
first time and we don't have a program to extract seperate
filters. Instead of redownloading all of the stuff I already did,
I just started with the flares I could not get SXT data for: 031104,
020421, and 020723. Unfortunately, after I spent a good deal of
time downloading this data, Sabrina told me during our meeting this
afternoon that I don't need to download TRACE data for 020421 or 020723
because they have already found SADs in that data. During our
meeting, Sabrina looked at the LASCO data for all of the flares.
Some of the flares that could be promising we don't have enough data
for so I will search for more of that eventually. The thing I
need to check first deals with the 000805 flare. She thinks this
flare could be good in LASCO also, but she wants me to run difference
the images instead of run-mean differencing. I spent the rest of
my day resharpening the 000805 data and then running it through
FindSADs.
Tuesday July 22
This morning I looked back at the newly sharpened 000805 data. It
looks a lot better but I'm still not sure about whether or not FindSADs
detected any good troughs. After that I looked for some more data
on the
LASCO
website for both 020421 and 020723. I can get more images but
only if I change the parameters a little bit. I have to go to the
weekly Hinode meeting this morning soon so I will have to ask Sabrina
what we can change. More images might make it possible to detect
some troughs because the images will look better after being
sharpened. Sabrina told me at the meeting to try
downloading the unprepped data because that will give us more images
and we can see if it looks
good. After the meeting I went to a lunch for just the women in
the department. They wanted to answer any questions we had about
grad school. When lunch was over, I downloaded the unprepped
LASCO data for both of the flares. I need to talk to Sabrina
about whether or not these look good and then finding a method to prep
LASCO data because right now we don't know how to do it. While
I waited for this, I started running the TRACE data for 031104, but the
do_trace_prep program kept spitting out all kinds of errors. I
decided to go back to downloading TRACE data. I started with
980420.
Wednesday July 23
I never got an e-mail yesterday about the TRACE data. To download
data for TRACE you have to send in a request and then they e-mail you a
link so that you can ftp the data. Usually I get an e-mail within
five to ten minutes, but I still haven't gotten one for the 980420 data
so I am going to retry and see what happens. Okay, so I think I typed
in the wrong e-mail yesterday. Anyway, so far today I have
downloaded the following TRACE data: 980420, 000712 (both flares), and
980509. After lunch I continued to download data. I
finished up the rest of the flares: 990508, 000805, 010403, and
010404.
Thursday July 24
I started my morning by attending a lecture on ethics in science.
After that I started to play around with some stuff for my final
presentation. I looked at some examples they gave us and started
working on my title page. I took a break from that after
finishing my first page. I started searching the LASCO website
again for anything that might give us more images for the 020421 and
020723 flares. Then I checked the data I have already analyzed
for both flares. I realized that the extraction I took for the
020723 flare is a little off from where the known downflows are.
Sabrina told me earlier this week that the downflows are in the NE and
I was just looking in the east so I tried rerunning the data through
FindSADs. I still did not find any SADs though because there are
only 6 images or so. After lunch I decided to try working with
the final presentation some more. I am meeting with David late
this afternoon to talk about the presentation. After successfully
figuring out some html to create parts of my presentation, I decided to
reread one of David's papers so that I can get some background
information for my presentation. I spent most of the summer
running programs and watching videos of flares so I don't feel like I
know that much about the SADs yet. The paper I read was
Signatures of Reconnection in Eruptive
Flares. I met with David after that and he told me to review
that paper before we meet again tomorrow morning so I'm glad I got that
started!
Friday July 25
This morning I finished reading David's paper. After that we met
to discuss my presentation. David explained a lot of the
background information on SADs to me. He gave me some direction
for this presentation. He also gave me some movies and pictures
that I could use to help explain what goes on during magnetic
reconnection. I also got another paper to read or skim through
that might help me out. My goal for today and next week is pretty
much putting together my presentation. I'm given 30-40 minutes to
speak plus another 20 minutes for questions and discussion. It
will take me quite awhile to prepare the html presentation and figure
out what I'm going to say. David also sent an e-mail to someone
who used to be at MSU and worked on LASCO data a lot. He might
be able to help us with the unprepped data. If we get a response
from him sometime soon then I will work on the 020421 and 020723 LASCO
data to see if we can find anything. I spent most of the day
working on my presentation and reading.
Monday July 28
I started working on my presentation this morning. I can't figure
out how to get symbols such as pi and sigma to show up when creating a
webpage. I really want to type in this one equation but I can't
get it to work. I've tried typing up the equation in Word and
copying and pasting but I've had no luck. I continued moving
forward and so far everything is looking pretty good. Now I'm
stuck until I figure out where I want to go next. I started
working on a table that David wanted me to create. It has
information about all three of the instruments I used this summer:
LASCO, SXT, and TRACE.
Instrument:
|
LASCO
|
SXT
|
TRACE
|
Already prepped?
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Fits format?
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Resolution:
|
11.9
|
1.22750 (64x64, full res)
|
-
|
| 2.45500(64x64, half res or
128x128, full res) |
Smaller extractions necessary?
|
Yes
|
No
|
-
|
Blow up the images?
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
-
|
Extract diff
filters/resolutions? (after or before dl data)?
|
No
|
Yes(after)
|
Yes(filters before, resolutions
after)
|
Best sharpened data?
|
If there are more than 100
images, use srmfmap, otherwise srfmap
|
If there are more than 100
images, use srmfmap, otherwise srfmap
|
-
|
Website for dl data:
|
http://stereo.nrl.navy.mil/cgi-bin
/swdbi/lasco/img_short/form |
http://solar.physics.montana.edu/ylegacy/ |
http://trace.lmsal.com/trace_cat.html |
I need to add some more data to this table but I haven't figured out
what else I need to add yet. It will also be formatted
differently for my final presentation next week.
Tuesday July 29
I started my morning by just looking at my presentation and trying to
figure out where I want to go with it. I think I've got some
ideas for what to work on this afternoon but right now it's time for my
weekly Hinode meeting...After the meeting I went back to my
presentation. I'm having some problems with slide 7 and the
movies on that page. The movies are working but the LASCO video
skips certain images unless I use Firefox to open the website. I
spent a lot of time on this slide but decided to come back to it at the
end of the week when I'm fixing last minute problems. Now I'm
also having problems getting images for my website. I create the
images, but then they have a huge black box around them that takes up
too much space. I tried using sub_map to clip off the extra
space, but so far I'm not having much luck.
Wednesday July 30
David got an e-mail back from Tim Howard about the unprepped LASCO
data. Tim said he uses all of the level .5 data and has never
prepped it. That being said, we thought we'd run the 020421 and
the 020723 flares again with the unprepped data. All is not well
this morning, however. I keep getting errors when I run the
020421 data through FindSADs. OK, I figured that out but when I
ran the data through FindSADs I still did not find anything. I
didn't even bother running the 020723 unprepped LASCO data because
there is less unprepped data than there is prepped data.
After I finished messing around with that data, I moved back to my
presentation. I feel like I accomplished a lot before
lunch. I continued working on the presentation after lunch.
I've got the last several slides planned out but I didn't get them all
done yet. I had some troubles picking good videos for a few of my
slides. I have a meeting with David tomorrow before lunch so
hopefully he can answer a few questions and let me know how things are
looking.
Thursday July 31
Today I went right to work on my presentation. I met with David
late in the morning and we went through all of the slides I have
created so far. We came up with a few changes here and
there. After the meeting I started modifying some of my
slides. I was trying to create an mpg movie for some original
LASCO data but it isn't working. The movie keeps showing up all
black. I need to figure out how to fix that tomorrow.
Friday August 1
Back to work on the presentation. I went through the whole thing
and changed/fixed all of the things David and I talked about.
Slide 10 is still causing some problems with the videos but other than
that I think I'm done. I want to meet with David on Monday
sometime to run through the actual presentation and show him the
changes I've made. Wednesday is my actual presentation so I've
got some time to fix any last minute problems.
Monday August 4
This morning I started looking at my presentation again. It's
pretty much done, but I have not figured out what I'm going to say
yet. I know more or less what I'll say but if I don't think about
it ahead of time my presentation will be horrible; therefore, I spent
most of the morning trying to figure that out. Sabrina also sent
me an e-mail saying she wants to see what I have so far for my
presentation sometime today. After I met with Sabrina, I had a
lot of changes to make. Most of my videos were not high quality
so we tried to resolve that problem. I spent most of the evening
rearranging slides, replacing videos, etc.
Tuesday August 5
I spent this morning sitting through two of the REU students'
presentations. Last night I finished up most of my
presentation. I just sent Sabrina an e-mail asking her if she
would look through it again because David won't be in until I present
tomorrow. This afternoon I will be sitting through three more
presentations.