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Week 5-Half Way Point

This week I feel like I have made some progress toward my final project. Things are starting to piece together which is great since we are at the half way point already! I can't believe how quick those 5 weeks have gone by.

I spent a lot of time working with Sergey's Matlab code. When I first saw it, I must admit it looked a bit foreign. I took an introductory course on Matlab winter term, but this was a bit beyond that class. Grant helped explain some of the stuff but I mostly manipulated it so I could use it for my own data.

I was really excited when I figured out how to make the graph of salinity transparent and then make a movie of all the different sigma levels. This took some trial and error and patience but when I got it, it was sooo exciting. Once I figured it out, I helped Kristine to make a movie of her plankton. Matlab is a great program as long as you know what your doing. If not it can be rather frustrating.

I also had the realization this week that it is going to be difficult to present the data in 3D. But I think I may have come up with an idea that will work. I am ready to start producing my data now and will hopefully be able to analyze it effectively this week.