Francisca Oboh Ikuenobe

**Francisca Oboh-Ikuenobe** kwararriyar ilimin kasa ce daga Ubiaja a ƙaramar hukumar Esan ta Kudu maso Gabas ta jihar Edo. Ta kware a fannin ilimin likitanci da nakasa, kuma Farfesa ce a fannin ilimin ƙasa a Sashen Kimiyyar Ƙasa da Ƙasa da Injiniya da Man Fetur, kuma Mataimakiyar Shugaban Harkokin Ilimi a Kwalejin Injiniya da Kwamfuta, Jami'ar Kimiyya da Fasaha ta Missouri.

## Farkon aiki
Oboh-Ikuenobe ta halarci St. Maria Goretti Girls Grammar School Benin-city, Nigeria. Ta samu digiri na farko a fannin ilmin kasa (Geology) a shekarar 1983, daga nan ta yi aiki a matsayin mai aikin samar da yanayin kasa a kamfanin Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria da ke Legas, sannan ta yi aiki a fannin nazarin halittu da Shell a dakin gwaje-gwajensu na kasa da ke Warri Delta, kafin ta dawo mata da digiri na biyu. MSc a fannin ilimin ƙasa a 1987, daga Jami'ar Ife Nigeria (yanzu Jami'ar Obafemi Awolowo). Bayan haka ta rike mukamin mataimakiyar malami a Jami'ar Ife. An ba ta lambar yabo ta Commonwealth Scholarship Commission Award don digirinta na digiri a Sashen Kimiyyar Duniya, Jami'ar Cambridge (New Hall, yanzu Kwalejin Murray Edwards), wanda aka ba ta a cikin 1991 tare da rubutunta 'Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction of E2.0 Reservoir a cikin Filin Kolo Creek, Niger Delta (Nigeria)'. Ta shiga Missouri S&T, sannan Sashen Nazarin Geology da Geophysics a 1991 a matsayin mataimakiyar farfesa a fannin ilimin kasa.

## Bincike
Binciken nata yana ƙarƙashin nau'ikan ilimin halittu da ilimin halitta, tare da tsohon ciki har da nazarin pollen da sauran palynomorphs a cikin sedimentation da duwatsu masu tsauri a matsayin wakili don sake gina biostratigraphic, palaeoecological da palaeoclimatic. Hakanan tana haɗa palynofacies tare da ilimin geochemistry na halitta.

## Wallafe-wallafen da aka zaɓa

* Mathur, R., Mahan, B., Spencer, M., Godfrey, L., Landman, N., Garb, M., Pearson, G.D., Liu, S.-A., and Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., 2021. Fingerprinting the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary impact with Zn isotopes. Nature Communications, 12:4128; .
* Romero, I.C., Kong, S., Fowlkes, C.C., Urban, M.A., Jaramillo, C., Oboh-Ikuenobe, F., D’Apolito, C., and Punyasena, S.W., 2020. Improving the taxonomy of fossil pollen using convolutional neural networks and superresolution microscopy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.2007324117.
* Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., Antolinez-Delgado, H., and Awad, W.K., 2017. Dinoflagellate cyst assemblages, biostratigraphy and paleoenvironment of a Paleocene-Early Eocene sedimentary succession in the northern Niger Delta Basin: Comparison with low, mid and high latitude regions. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 481, p. 29-43; doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.05.020.
* Barron, A., Zobaa, M.K., and Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., 2017. Palynological evidence for sustained deep-marine conditions during the Eocene-Miocene in the southern Gulf of Mexico distal continental margin. Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 129, p. 218-228; doi: 10.1130/B31559.1.
* Pletsch, T., Erbacher, J., Holbourne, A.E.L., Kuhnt, W., Moullade, M., Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., Söding, E., and Wagner, T., 2001. Cretaceous separation of Africa and South America: the view from the West African margin (ODP Leg 159). Journal of South American Earth Sciences, v. 14, p. 147-174.
* Jaramillo, C.A., and Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., 1999. Sequence stratigraphic interpretations from palynofacies, dinocyst and lithological data of Upper Eocene-Lower Oligocene strata in southern Mississippi and Alabama, U.S. Gulf Coast. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 145, p. 259-302.
* Oboh, F.E., 1992. Middle Miocene palaeoenvironments of the Niger Delta. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 92, p. 55-84.

## Manazarta