Deniz Aygen works for the Intermountain Bird Observatory. She has studied birds all over the world. Her passion is environmental education, so she enjoys taking birds to schools all over.Deniz grew up in Michigan and earned her B.S. in Biology from Michigan State University in 1997. Her enthusiasm for field research and her passion for environmental education have led Deniz around the world from the coast of Georgia to Appalachian Mountains of Virginia where she worked as a naturalist, to Israel, Italy, and Massachusetts banding migratory passerines and waterbirds, to the shores of Lake Superior and the Chesapeake Bay where she banded owls and ran a hawk trapping station. After the travelling itch was scratched, Deniz received her M.S. from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington in 2005. Her graduate research assessed the diet composition of Royal Tern chicks in the Chesapeake Bay. Shortly there after, Deniz moved to Idaho and joined IBO in the spring of 2005. She also assists with events and projects for the Golden Eagle Audubon Society. Deniz can often be found playing outside with her two daughters and husband, Greg, taking photos of all things lovely, and whipping up some crazy concoctions in the kitchen.