Kaitlin Sennewald
Program: Human Paleobiology M.S.
Year of Entry: Fall 2024
Advisor: W. Andrew Barr
Kaitlin is an MS student in the PAPER lab, through which she combines her interdisciplinary background in the natural and social sciences to study complex relationships between hominins and the environments they have inhabited. Her current research interests revolve around how environmental change has influenced physical and behavioral adaptations in the genus Homo, particularly Homo neanderthalensis.
Paleoecology, Paleoanthropology, Paleoclimatology, eDNA and sedaDNA
B.S. Environmental Science and Policy (concentration in Culture and Environment), 2023, University of Maryland