Wine Aroma, Fly Circuits
Compose aroma profiles, watch signals move through a reduced fly olfactory circuit, then test the result with pathway silencing and rewired controls.
Open NeuroTerroir →Selected projects
Tools and field notes for understanding place.
A curated public collection. Household records, private operational tools, and unfinished working files are not part of this site.
How NeuroTerroir Is Built
The scientific sources, GitHub code reviews, mapping decisions, uncertainties, and non-duplication boundaries behind the aroma lab.
Review the evidence →What Is My Ecoregion?
Find the EPA terrestrial ecoregion associated with a U.S. address or landmark, with plain-language context and transparent data sources.
Try the finder →San Antonio Seed Libraries
A researched map of community seed access and the public institutions helping locally appropriate growing knowledge circulate.
Explore the map →Austin Seed Libraries
A companion study of seed-sharing access across Austin, organized for comparison and practical use.
Explore the research →Growing Under Heat
Research notes on germination, seasonal timing, water constraints, and what climate pressure changes in a small garden.
Read the field notes →Looking Closely in a Hot City
A species-rich walking guide where heat, shade, route design, and safe observation are part of the ecological story.
Open the guide →Garden Events
Public classes, plant events, and community learning opportunities assembled into a usable local feed.
Browse San Antonio events →Crescent Bend Nature Park
A local guide to floodplain recovery, Cibolo Creek habitat, bird blinds, and more than 250 recorded bird species.
Explore the park →Blue Hole at Headwaters Sanctuary
Plan a respectful visit to the San Antonio River’s traditional headwaters and follow the sourced history of its changing spring flow.
Plan a visit →Bracken Cave Preserve
A visitor-centered guide to the preserve, its immense Mexican free-tailed bat colony, and the habitat protection surrounding it.
Explore the preserve →Spend time in nature
Texas
Field guides for observing habitats, wildlife, geology, water, and working landscapes across South and Central Texas. Check each guide’s current access notes before visiting.
Five connected cultural landscapes
San Antonio Missions
Read the UNESCO mission group through water, stone, farming, native and colonial histories, living parishes, urban change, and the San Antonio River. Each guide links current visitor rules and nearby community nature observations.
The Alamo · Mission Valero
Look beyond 1836 to the mission’s founding, relocations, acequias, foodways, unfinished church, and changing urban setting.
Plan a visit →Mission Concepción
Bedrock, original stonework, surviving frescoes, and more than 250 years of living continuity.
Plan a visit →Mission San José
The park’s visitor hub, with compound walls, granary, grist mill, acequia water, ornate stonework, and restoration history.
Plan a visit →Mission San Juan Capistrano
A living farm, historic acequia, accessible river trail, orchard, and agricultural landscape beyond the mission walls.
Plan a visit →Mission Espada
Weaving, ranching, cultivated land, and the park’s most complete original acequia system.
Plan a visit →More Texas field guides
Parks, trails, water, and working landscapes
Crescent Bend Nature Park
Cibolo Creek habitat, floodplain recovery, bird blinds, and community wildlife observations.
Plan a visit →Blue Hole at Headwaters Sanctuary
Walk to the traditional headwaters of the San Antonio River, then explore the spring’s Indigenous, civic, and aquifer history.
Plan a visit →Bracken Cave Preserve
Managed visits to one of the world’s largest bat colonies and the protected habitat surrounding it.
Plan a visit →North Bluff Spurs Overlook
A 3.4-mile round-trip backcountry climb to a limestone overlook at Government Canyon State Natural Area.
Plan a hike →Chula Vista Loop
A 5.8-mile backcountry loop via Far Reaches Trail and Sendero Balcones, with 338 feet of gain.
Plan a hike →Comanche Lookout Loop
A 1.1-mile linked park loop to wooded slopes, a stone tower, and one of Bexar County’s highest points.
Plan a hike →Crownridge Canyon Natural Area Loop
An approximately 1.9-mile linked outing through restored grassland, forested canyon, limestone slopes, and a canopy-level bridge.
Plan a hike →Friedrich Wilderness Park Loop
A roughly 2.2-mile trailhead outing on Entry Trail and Main Loop, climbing about 350 feet through steep, rocky Hill Country terrain.
Plan a hike →Hillview Natural Trail
A roughly 2.02-mile park circuit across natural and paved surfaces, circling limestone slopes, wooded canyons, and a high Hill Country ridge.
Plan a hike →McAllister Park Loop
A 6.2-mile Blue Loop through oak-juniper woodland, grass openings, limestone terrain, and the upper Salado Creek watershed.
Plan a hike →Medina River Natural Area Loop
A roughly 1.93-mile trailhead outing on El Camino and Rio Medina trails through riparian forest beside the Medina River.
Plan a hike →The Big Red Barn
Demonstration gardens, pollinator habitat, food education, and working-farm heritage.
Plan a visit →Seguin AgriLife
Extension programs, local horticultural knowledge, seed exchange, and land stewardship resources.
Plan a visit →Mitchell Lake Audubon Center
Restored wetlands, Central Flyway birding, grassland habitat, and urban ecological history.
Plan a visit →Schertz Pollinator Garden
A compact native-plant demonstration garden for observing pollinators and seasonal bloom.
Plan a visit →Judson Nature Trails
Woodland paths, creek influence, birding, and a Monarch Waystation within the city.
Plan a visit →Canyon Lake Gorge
A flood-carved exposure of limestone, fossils, faults, fractures, springs, and aquifer geology.
Plan a visit →Fischer Park
Ponds, greenway trails, pollinator habitat, and approachable nature education.
Plan a visit →Honey Creek State Natural Area
Guided access to spring water, limestone, savanna, and riparian woodland.
Plan a visit →