Scott Sampson is a dinosaur paleontologist and science communicator. He serves as executive director and the William R. and Gretchen B. Kimball Chair at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. Sampson is known to millions of children and parents as “Dr Scott,” host of the hit PBS Kids television show, Dinosaur Train, and he is author of How to Raise a Wild Child: The Art and Science of Falling in Love with Nature (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015).