NAME:  Tannis McCartney CURRENT TITLE:  PhD Candidate AREA OF EXPERTISE: SEDIMENTATION AND TECTONICS, EAST AFRICA SEISMIC RESEARCH YEARS OF EXPERIENCE:  6 – OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY EDUCATION:  BSc Geophysics, University of Alberta; MSc Geology, University of Calgary, Canada WEBSITE: http://www.tannislikesrocks.blogspot.com What’s your job like? Geoscience students are fortunate to be able to get funding for grad school. My current funding is a combination of fellowship and teaching assistantship. I am finishing my formal coursework so I spend all of my time on my own research, unless it’s a semester when I’m working as a TA. Then I also have to allow time for prepping/teaching/grading/office hours. As a TA, I am paid for 20 hours of teaching-related work per week, but it is really hard to be a good TA in only 20 hours. My dissertation research involves working with seismic data from East African rift lakes (primarily Lake Malawi) to