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My EcoCuentos Bilingual Book Club

Completely free and accessible to everyone.

Available exclusively on YouTube, anytime, anywhere.

Includes a free downloadable workbook that helps kids connect with nature through each book.

Encourages bilingual learning in English and Spanish. Perfect for families, classrooms, or anyone who loves stories and the natural world!

Where Every Book is a Door to Nature!

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My vision is to create a space where kids and families can explore the wonders of nature through engaging stories, while also fostering bilingual learning and imagination. Every month, I post a new video and free downloadable workbook, filled with fun, hands-on activities that bring the natural world into your home and inspire kids to observe, explore, and connect with the environment around them. With EcoCuentos, reading isn’t just about words on a page — it’s an adventure, a conversation starter, and a way to make science and nature feel exciting, accessible, and relevant to everyday life. 

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Márquez en las Profundidades

Join a curious, kind-hearted community exploring science, storytelling, and the wonders of the natural world. From ocean adventures and conservation insights to reflections on motherhood, identity, and life’s big questions, this is a space to learn, wonder, and connect. Subscribe for essays, field notes, Q&As, and curated resources that spark curiosity and bring science — and life — to heart and mind.

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Refereed Journal Articles

• Shiffman, D., Burge, E.J., Flammang, B., Foord, C., Marquez, M., Mowle, K., Drew, J. and Sherman, C.S., 2025. Underwater video reveals novel behavioural interactions: a case study of a repeated ongoing association between a sharksucker Echeneis naucrates and a yellowtail parrotfish Sparisoma rubripinne. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 105, p.e89.

• Buchan, P.M., Glithero, L.D., McKinley, E., Strand, M., Champion, G., Kochalski, S., Velentza, K., Praptiwi, R.A., Jung, J., Márquez, M.C. and Marra, M.V., 2024. A transdisciplinary co‐conceptualisation of marine identity. People and Nature, 6(6), pp.2300-2324.

• Branch, T.A., Cȏté, I.M., David, S.R., Drew, J.A., LaRue, M., Márquez, M.C., Parsons, E.C.M., Rabaiotti, D., Shiffman, D., Steen, D.A. and Wild, A.L., 2024. Controlled experiment finds no detectable citation bump from Twitter promotion. Plos one, 19(3), p.e0292201.

• Abdel-Raheem, S.T., Payne, A.R., Rivera, M.G., Sturdivant, S.K., Walker, N.S., Márquez, M.C., Ornelas, A., Turner, M., Byers, K. and Beltran, R.S., 2023. OCEANOGRAPHY’S DIVERSITY DEFICIT. Oceanography, 36(4), pp.44-50.

• Márquez, M.C. and Porras, A.M., 2020. Science communication in multiple languages is critical to its effectiveness. Frontiers in Communication, 5, p.31.

• Wright, A.J., Araújo-Wang, C., Wang, J.Y., Ross, P.S., Tougaard, J., Winkler, R., Márquez, M.C., Robertson, F.C., Williams, K.F. and Reeves, R.R., 2020. How ‘blue’is ‘green’energy?. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 35(3), pp.235-244.


Book Chapters

• Márquez, M.C. Boyle, A., Brown, K.T., Elcock, J. N., and Kitolelei, S. (2023). Public perceptions of sharks. In: Minorities in Shark Sciences: Diverse Voices in Shark Research. CRC Press. ISBN 978-032-19696-1

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