Dr. Ozbay is a Professor and Extension Specialist of Natural Resources in the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources at Delaware State University. She received her Ph.D. in Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures focusing on environmental health-related to aquaculture at Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama in 2002. She conducted research leading to the development of aquaculture effluent water quality standards for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as her Ph.D. project. She received her Master of Sciences in Marine Bio-Resources at the University of Maine, Orono, Maine in 1996. Her undergraduate education was in Fisheries and Aquaculture Engineering in Turkey, graduating in 1991. She also completed her second Master of Sciences in Food Science and Biotechnology focusing on seagood safety at Delaware State University, Dover, Delaware in 2016. Her research interests include habitat restoration, aquatic ecology, health, water resources, sustainable marine aquaculture, and fisheries, and seafood safety. The ecosystem approach in her research has allowed her to understand some of the land-use stressors such as nutrient runoff on the population ecology and restoration of two ecologically and economically important species, the blue crab and Eastern oyster, in the Mid-Atlantic region.