On Monday I attended the PEER/SCEC workshop on communication's and technical writing skills. The information presented will be useful in writing my final report. There was also a segment on how to use power point, which gave me some new ideas for the Aug. 5th presentation.
        This week I began my solo attempt to reconstruct meters 20-25 of the east wall. TIm came to he office on Thursday and we went over what I had accomplished. I had made some mistakes, which was inevitable. So I have spent most of today fixing what I had done wrong. Tim also printed out the entire trench log (so far) of the east wall. That way I can see what is going on at other faults, that may be causing additional displacement/uplift in my reconstruction. So before I began fixing the computer reconstruction, I reconstructed the printed log. This took my a few hours, but I then had a guide as I readjusted my reconstruction. That method helped me a lot because I had a view of the entire trench, and not what parts the computer screen would view.
    I have almost completed my first reconstruction, there are a few finishing touches to be added, etc. I still have one more event horizon that I am in disagreement
with, so I will need to discuss this with Tim wen he returns Monday. This reconstruction will be completed (hopefully) for my presentation. I intend to dissect the reconstruction one step at a time to explain my logic and methods in obtaining the end results. 
    I also began to outline my presentation for next week. To give a short introduction of the geology of the area, I begun re-reading Tom and Sally's paper. With the information I have I should be able to give an overview to the site, and then dive directly into discussing the reconstruction.
   This week was a little rough; but I'm sure our intern meeting next week will be uplifting!