Calendar
Monday
- Meeting with P.I. (Principal Investigator) regarding electronic files for publisher for biological text book.
- Convert electronic files and create CD, FedEX to editor.
- Meeting with author regarding maps for anthropological text book.
- Locate electronic files and upload to server for P.I. in Germany for his manuscript in Chemical Oceanography.
Tuesday
- Meeting with P.I. regarding slides for a meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
- Receive data via floppy disk and hard copy.
- Work on maps, text slides in the software program Adobe Illustrator.
- Receive data via email and work on illustration and tables for overhead transparencies for the Acoustical Society of America (ASA).
- Roughs to P.I. for proofing.
- Receive Microsoft Excel files for presentation graphs for Microsoft PowerPoint presentation for the accounting department.
- Upload files to ftp site for making slides.
Wednesday
- Phone conversations regarding department Christmas cards.
- Phone conversations regarding accounting presentation.
- Email with system administrator regarding computer.
- Meeting with student regarding instructions for making/printing posters from PowerPoint.
- Meeting with researcher regarding creating figure.
- Create figure in Adobe Illustrator and email to researcher.
- Receive corrections via email for overheads for ASA.
- Complete corrections, scan photo, label and print transparencies.
Thursday
- Assist administrator in printing overheads from PowerPoint.
- Download PowerPoint file and print sample poster for student.
- Download Adobe Illustrator files for poster, correct problems and print poster.
- Call Technical Editor regarding files sent on CD. Discuss same with publisher.
- Find electronic files and make postscript files for in-house publishing department.
- Work on cartoon for piece of equipment.
An example of Jo's artwork.
Friday
- Phone call regarding postscript files.
- Transmit same postscript files and discuss making poster of oceanographic atlas. Make sample files.
- Meeting with student regarding PowerPoint poster.
- Meeting with student regarding Adobe Illustrator file. Remake poster and scan new files. Receive new text files.
- Work on PowerPoint presentation for accounting department.
Jo Griffith
- Principle Illustrator, Marine Physical Laboratory
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography
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