Selen Esmeray-Senlet

About Selen Esmeray-Senlet

Selen Esmeray-Senlet is a Senior Exploration Geologist at Chevron International Exploration, in Egypt Exploration Team. She joined Chevron in 2014 after receiving her Ph.D. from Rutgers University and her M.Sc. and B.Sc. from Middle East Technical University, Turkiye. At Chevron, she initially worked as a Seismic Stratigraphy Subject Matter Expert at the Technical Center before joining International Exploration. She is a company expert in seismic stratigraphic interpretation and visualization, reservoir characterization, integrated exploration workflows, clastic depositional settings, and chronostratigraphy. Selen has worked across a broad range of regions, including Egypt, Suriname, Atlantic Canada, West Africa, the Partitioned Zone, Myanmar, and the Gulf of Mexico. She led Chevron’s global Seismic Stratigraphy & Geomorphology Course in both domestic and international locations and currently co-teaches the Seismic Stratigraphy Graduate Course at Texas A&M University. Selen also has a strong publication record in the fields of Stratigraphy and Paleoceanography and has served as a session chair and technical reviewer at international conferences. When she’s not working, Selen enjoys creative writing, reading, traveling, practicing yoga, cooking, and cherishing time with family and friends.Specialization: Integrated Exploration Workflows, Seismic Interpretation, Stratigraphy, Seismic Stratigraphic and Geomorphologic Interpretation and Visualization, Sequence Stratigraphy, Clastic and Clastic-Carbonate Mixed Depositional Settings, Chronostratigraphy, Biostratigraphy, Isotope Geochemistry, Paleoceanography.

Experience

1. Senior Exploration Geologist - Frontier Exploration South America

   Chevron

   Jul 2025 — Present · Houston, TX, US

Education

• Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick

  Ph.D.

  2009 — 2014

• Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University

  M.Sc.

  2005 — 2008

• Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University

  B.Sc. Minor Degree

  2002 — 2005

• Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University

  B.Sc.

  2000 — 2005

• Ankara Anadolu High School

  High School

  1993 — 2000

Skills

• Oral Communications
• Sedimentology
• Scientific Writing
• Planktonic Foraminifera
• Arcgis
• Creative Writing
• Languages
• Research
• Report Writing
• Science
• Petrel
• English
• Micropaleontology
• Geology
• Sequence Stratigraphy
• Paleontology
• Engineering Geology
• Teaching
• Gis
• Geological Mapping
• Stratigraphy
• Remote Sensing
• Taxonomy
• Powerpoint
• Microsoft Office
• Proposal Writing
• Earth Science
• Stratabugs
• Presenter
• Field Work