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Puerto Rico

Melissa Cristina Márquez is a Puerto Rican American marine biologist and science communicator. She studies chondrichthyans, including great white sharks.

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My advice is get good grades, follow your passions, and try to volunteer with aquariums or museums that allow you to interact with the animals.

Historically and even today, women contribute a lot to the STEM industry and don't really get the credit they deserve.

Interview with Oceans Research (2018)

My role models are Eugenie Clark (RIP) and David Attenborough, still to this day! They both brought the natural world to life for me and I cannot thank them enough for how they have shaped my views of wildlife and nature.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Melissa Cristina Márquez (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.