Oregon Sea Grant

Shawn Rowe is serving as interim Sea Grant Education program leader and director of Sea Grant's Visitor Center at OSU's Hatfield Marine Science Center. As a Marine Education Learning Specialist, Dr. Rowe engages in research on free-choice learning - the kind of learning people do outside classrooms and other formal education settings. He uses the Visitor Center as a laboratory to study learning behavior. Dr. Rowe has a background in applied linguistics (studying how people learn language) and developmental psychology in education, and holds a PhD from Washington University in St. Louis.