Ibukun Bode received a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Geology at the Federal University of Technology Akure, Nigeria in 2007, and a Masters in Geology at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin in 2013. Her research interests include carbonate reservoir characterization, carbonate petrophysics, effects of diagenesis on reservoir properties, statistical analysis of geologic data, and modern depositional analogs for carbonate mudrocks. She started her Ph.D. program at the Boone Pickens School of Geology, Oklahoma State University in 2014. Her research focus is on the characterization of pore systems in conventional and unconventional carbonate reservoir rocks. Her Ph.D. dissertation utilizes high-resolution tools such as nuclear magnetic resonance, scanning electron microscopy, micro-CT, and focused ion beam SEM for characterizing porosity and pore size distribution in carbonate mudrocks. During her Masters, she worked on several Permian Basin projects including characterizing residual oil zones (ROZs) for enhanced oil recovery and carbon sequestration. For her Master’s thesis, she described the shallow water platform carbonates of the San Andres Formation as developed in the Vacuum Field, Lea County New Mexico, and incorporated and correlated other cores and well log data from the study area to interpret the different orders of cyclicity and major sequence stratigraphic boundaries – with their correlation to reservoir quality and continuity.

She has interned and worked in the oil and gas industry and carried out industry-related research in the Permian Basin and Mississippian-aged carbonates of the Southern Midcontinent. Ibukun is a two-time recipient of the AAPG Grants-in-Aid award (2017, 2018), and also received the ExxonMobil GSA graduate student grant and Suzanne Takken Scholarship in 2017. This summer and subsequently in the fall, Ibukun will be interning with WPX Energy and then ExxonMobil a petrophysics/formation evaluation intern.