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Please contact the PI with:
✓ interest in contracting with the lab
✓ questions about research, data, or protocols
✓ media inquiries, interview requests, or speaking invitations
Best form of contact
​Dr. Tyler Kartzinel
Email: tyler_kartzinel[at]brown.edu​

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If you are interested in contracting with us for your next project, please reach out to discuss your research goals and timelines!

Prospective Lab Members

If you are a prospective graduate student, postdoc, or undergraduate, please refer to our "join" page for current opportunities and general advice

Media inquiries

Dr. Kartzinel has appeared live on BBC World News Television, Times Radio, and other media outlets. His work has been covered by outlets such as The New York Times, NPR, and National Geographic. Please reach out with inquiries concerning our research, recent discoveries in the field, or conservation and policy developments in general.

Examples of written and A/V media are available here for reference.

Print Media

  • “Giraffes’ gut microbiome communities determined by species, not diet,” Forbes, 3/2025.
  • “Scientists figure out how Yellowstone Animals find enough to eat,” Newsweek, 9/2024.
  • “Elephants have a very human way of eating dinner,” Newsweek, 7/2023.
  • “Predators drove a lizard population to extinction without eating them,” PBS Nova, 06/2019.
  • “Big African animals are pickier eaters than we imagined,” Smithsonian Magazine, 06/2015.
  • “Grass gourmands: A herbivore food mystery on the African savanna,” National Public Radio, 06/2015.
  • “How do African grasslands support so many plant-eaters?” National Geographic Society, 06/2015.

Audio / Video

A tale of three lizards: The problem with predators from
Nature Video.

Gorongosa Field Notes: Going Back in Time Four Decades from
EOWilson Biodiversity Foundation on Vimeo.


Dr. Tyler Kartzinel
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology
Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
Brown University
​Address: 85 Waterman Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912 USA
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