Vishal Subramanyan
Join the Presidio Trust Ecologist Dr. Phoebe Parker-Shames to discuss skunks, possums, and more in the parks - mammals that tend to be misunderstood. Learn about their lives in the parks we share.
Dr. Phoebe Parker-Shames is the Wildlife Ecologist for the Presidio of San Francisco, where she leads wildlife monitoring and management efforts focused on supporting human-wildlife coexistence in an urban national park. Her work includes wildlife research, conservation management, and public engagement across a variety of species in the Presidio.
Phoebe is a broadly-trained interdisciplinary ecologist who has worked on a wide array of field research projects ranging from spotted hyena behavior in Kenya’s Maasai Mara, to guppy evolution in Trinidad, to raptor migration with the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory. Phoebe earned her PhD in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management from UC Berkeley in 2022, where her research focused on the role of humans within ecological systems.