Journal of Food Processing & Technology

Gulnihal Ozbay

Biography

 Dr. Gulnihal Ozbay is a Professor and Extension Specialist in Natural Resources in the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources at Delaware State University. Her research interests are in the area of habitat restoration and water quality issues, specifically water quality driven toxicity in harmful algae, shellfish-algae dynamics, nutrient and water quality management, heavy metal contaminants, aquatic ecology and bacterial monitoring. She received her Ph.D. in Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures at Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama in 2002. She serves in the Research Advisory Committee for NOAA-LMRCSC and Technical Advisory Committee for the Northeast Aquaculture Center, currently as co-chair. She has also been honored by an appointment from the Secretary of the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control as a member of the Delaware Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment Steering Committee for the State of Delaware.

Research Interest

Marine aquaculture, habitat restoration and water quality issues, specifically, research in the associations between algae, shellfish, and water quality, water quality driven, toxicity in harmful algae, shellfish-algae dynamics, nutrient and water quality management,aquatic ecology and health, seafood safety, and drinking water quality.