7/8/09

Today was better than the first two days. It was a little less confusing since I was just reviewing most of the procedures from yesterday. I also finally started something actually productive to the research by finding the regions of interest around the buoys the remote sensing group is using on lake Ontario. I am learning to right all of the new procedures down so that I don't necessarily have to memorize the hundreds of steps, but rather have something to look at. The IDL training class went much smoother today, though it is still pretty difficult and confusing, at least Paul went a little bit slower and did more basic stuff with us. I am beginning to get the concepts of idl a little bit more than I was yesterday. I also was taught partially today how to use the CARY machine, which detects the amount of reflection off of different objects