Author Maggie Tokuda-Hall will be here to celebrate her new book What Do People Do at t he Science Museum? and joined by \;Sr. Museum Sc ientists Alex Lowe (Paleobotany Collections) and Ashley D ineen (Invertebrates)!
\n\nSaturday\, Octobe r 24
\n11:30am-12:30pm
\n\nCe ntral 4th Floor Children's Nonfiction Room
\n2090 Kittredge St.
\ nBerkeley\, CA 94704
\n\nAbout the Book:< /p>\n
A fun\, vibrantly illustrated behind-the-scenes tour of the inner workings of a natural history museum and all the incredible people who wor k there!
\nWelcome to the Science and Natural History Museum! Here y ou&rsquo\;ll see all kinds of cool things\, from a whole Dunkleosteus skel eton to a tiny dwarf seahorse to a glimpse of the Andromeda Galaxy. You&rs quo\;ll also meet all kinds of cool people&mdash\;like volcanologists\, pa leontologists\, squid biologists\, and many more&mdash\;who research fasci nating questions so that they can answer yours.
\nBut what do these people do all day at the science museum?
\nWell\, there&rsquo\;s onl y one way to find out! Join a field trip through the busy museum and find out about all the kinds of scientists who work there and each of their inc redible fields.
\n\nAbout the Creators:
\ nMaggie Tokuda-Hall \;is not a scientist\, but she does have a lot of questions. She grew up going to the Lawrence Hall of S cience\, the La Brea Tar Pits\, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County\, the Steinhart Aquarium\, and the Los Angeles and Oakland Zoos. On ce\, when she was 12\, she even got to visit the Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan i n Japan. Nowadays\, she takes her two kids to the California Academy of Sc iences. She lives in Oakland\, California\, with her family and her object ively perfect dog. Learn more about Maggie at \;prettyokmaggie.com.
\nQin Leng is a visual development artist and an illu strator and author of children&rsquo\;s books. Throughout her career\, she has illustrated picture books\, magazines\, and book covers for publisher s around the world. Clover/Trè\;fle\, written by Nadine Robert\, was the winner of the Governor General&rsquo\;s Literary Award for best pictu re book\, and Piper Chen Sings\, written by Phillipa Soo and Maris Pasqual e Doran\, was an instant New York Times bestseller and received three star red reviews. Qin lives in Toronto with her husband and her son. Learn more about her at qinillustrations.com.
\nAbout the Scientists:& nbsp\;
\nAlex Lowe's research interests ar e in paleoecology\, paleoclimate\, geochronology\, taxonomy\, and biogeogr aphy. \;He works primarily with Cenozoic plant macrofossils and recent research has focused on reconstructing terrestrial vegetation and climate in the western US\, particularly the Pacific Northwest\, during the late Paleogene and Neogene. These rich fossil records provide an exciting oppor tunity to reconstruct the response of vegetation fairly analogous to moder n wet temperate forests of the eastern US\, Europe\, and east Asia to glob al climatic changes and pervasive regional volcanism. \;He was a \ ;Peter Buck Deep Time Post-doctoral Fellow at the National Museum of Natur al History\, Smithsonian Institution in 2025. \;
\nAshle y Dineen earned her B.S.\, M.S.\, and Ph.D. degrees in Geoscience s from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee\, and completed postdoctoral work at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. Her research is focused on paleocommunity structure and functional diversity dynamics d uring and after massive environmental disturbance (e.g. climate regime tra nsitions\, mass extinction)\, which involves quantifying the food web stru cture and trait space dynamics of marine paleocommunities. Her fieldwork l ocalities include China\, Italy\, Argentina\, and several states in the We stern US. She was the Paleontological Society's Cordilleran Section Chair from 2020-2024 before becoming Chair of the Collections Committee in 2025.
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