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July 17th, 2017: Day 8

Today we were missing some people, I think three but that's not excessively relevant. People in the group explained their projects more and we decided to start presenting abstracts tomorrow. There also was like a one minute meeting in here for staff and students that interns were not involved in but again, not excessively relevant. Paige and I are still working on our presentation for Dave to take to England. It's coming along and it's a lot better than it was the other day but we still have a long ways to go. We had to redo almost every plot and add in more information to fill in some gaps. A decent amount of time has been dedicated to just making the graph look nicer, editing sizes, alphabetizing the names of countries, placing titles and labels in a the center of the page, checking grammar, etc. This seems like a school project that's not being graded and is actually important. The presentation itself is not bad but it's really obvious that high school students made it. We lack professionalism and it shows in the presentation. It's mainly plots and images of our results, not many explanations are required so it's more of a visual thing than a reading thing. I'll add in some plots of Japan and likely Spanish Luzon to show all three of you what I've been doing all day and also all week.

They look good, right? I'm pretty proud of them.

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