Dr. Crowley’s research interests focus on the development of children’s scientific thinking in informal, formal, and everyday settings. His work focuses on understanding how children develop knowledge and skill in the context of family scientific thinking in context such as museums or on the web. He conducted his graduate work at Carnegie-Mellon University, and he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at UC Santa Cruz, where he worked with Maureen Callanan and they began their collaboration with Children’s Discovery Museum.