ERAY KOCEL
www.linkedin.com/in/eraykocel
[email protected]
Phone: 832 661 3200
OBJECTIVE
A full time position as a geophysicist in the oil and gas industry
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy in Geophysics
May 2015
GPA: 3.7
University of Houston – Houston, TX
Thesis: Near-Surface geophysical investigation of the 2010 Haiti earthquake epicentral area: Léogâne,
Haiti (SEG- Geoscientists Without Border funded project)
Advisors: Robert R. Stewart and Paul Mann
Master of Science in Geophysics
GPA: 3.65
University of Houston – Houston, TX
December 2011
RELEVANT COURSEWORK
Multicomponent Seismic Exploration, Basin Analysis for Petroleum Exploration, Reservoir
Geomechanics, 3D Seismic Exploration, Geophysical Data Acquisition, Geophysical Data Processing,
Borehole Geophysics (Petro physics & Well logging), Petroleum Geology, GIS application in Earth
Sciences
SOFTWARE SKILLS
Seismic Analysis: Omega Seismic Processing, WG-Vista Seismic Processing, OMNI 3D Survey Design
Seismic Interpretation: Petrel, Landmark (GeoProbe), SMT Kingdom
Inversion: SurfSeis3.0, SeisImager
Related: ArcGIS, Geosoft-Montaj, basic Linux, Microsoft Office
EXPERIENCE
WESTERNGECO-Schlumberger
Summer 2014
Geophysics Intern
Houston, TX
 Seismic survey design and modeling for a subsalt play at Gulf of Mexico: guided Bayesian
design for optimality and wave equation illumination for high fidelity assessment
 Project includes detailed structural imaging of a subsalt play in GOM by the illumination
analysis to determine the data conditioning for optimality. 3D ray tracing, Wave-equation
illumination & Full-waveform inversion is used during optimization.
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON
Research Assistant: Allied Geophysical Laboratories
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Jan. 2012- Present
Houston, TX
Conducting an integrated geophysical data analyses for subsurface imaging using land and
marine seismic data, gravity.
Research includes seismic survey design, forward modeling and inversion to determine nearsurface parameters while generating possible shallow and deep models.
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ACTIVITIES AND HONORS
Secretary of SEG student chapter at UH: SEG wavelets
2014
Event Coordinator of AAPG student chapter at UH: AAPG Wildcatters
2014
Stanford University - Reservoir Geomechanics Course
2014
Geoscientist without Borders, Haiti project, student at University of Houston
2014
ExxonMobil Upstream Research Co. Scholarship
2014
SEG Anadarko Scholarship
2013
BP Scholarship for Outstanding Academic Achievement in Geophysics
2013
Chevron Scholarship for Outstanding Academic Achievement in Geophysics
2012
ExxonMobil Integrated Basin and Play Analysis Workshop
2011
Texas Public Educational Grant for Outstanding Graduate Students,
2011-2014
Teaching Assistant (Borehole Geophysics, Petroleum Geology and Reservoir Characterization, Petroleum
Seismic Exploration, Geophysical Field Camp)
2010-2013
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
 Kocel, E., R. R. Stewart, P. Mann, L. Chang, 2014, Near-surface geophysical investigation of the 2010
Haiti earthquake epicentral area: Léogâne, Haiti, Interpretation (submitted)
 Kocel, E., R. R. Stewart, A. Aziz, 2014, Subsurface Imaging In Haiti, Léogâne, GSH March Journal
 Kocel, E., R. R. Stewart, P. Mann, S. Roy, C. Hyslop and L. Chang, 2013, Searching for the Blind fault:
Haiti Subsurface Imaging Project, 83rd International Meeting, SEG
 Roy, S., E. Kocel, N. Dyaur, and R. R. Stewart, 2013, Lateral heterogeneity and surface-wave inversion
(MASW),83rd International Meeting, SEG (poster)
 Allied Geophysical Laboratories (AGL) Annual Day, University of Houston, Houston, TX, 2011-2013
(poster & presentation)
 AAPG/SEG Student Expo., Houston, TX, 2012-2014 (poster)
 R. E. Sheriff Lecture, Houston, TX, 2014 (poster)
PROFESSIONAL AND STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS
Society of Explorations Geophysicists
SEG Wavelets (UH)
Geophysical Society of Houston
Geoscientists Without Borders-SEG
Near Surface Geophysics AGU/SEG
American Geophysical Union
AAPG Wildcatter (UH)
GeoSociety (UH)
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