Bio

The living things of Sacramento, and how a changed city can make room for them.

Open questions, begun June 2026

1. 1

   Why do possums keep dying on our roads?

   Where they cross, when, and what would let them cross alive.

2. 2

   Where does the city of trees lack trees?

   Which streets and neighborhoods, and which trees will hold in the heat now coming.

3. 3

   Can a backyard hold a working ecosystem?

   What a home and garden would need for wildlife to live around it.

4. 4

   What should the Natomas basin become?

   Water, homes and habitat on the same ground, planned for today's conditions.

5. 5

   Natoma: Lake Natoma mussel and avian bio-restoration

   Nimbus Hatchery (NBF) 5-year hourly CDEC water-temperature baseline (38,162 rows, summer mean 15.2°C, max 20.2°C) sits 7°C to 10°C below the 25°C to 29°C upper thermal limit of California Floater (Anodonta californiensis), with native glochidia host fishes (Oncorhynchus mykiss, Ptychocheilus grandis, Cottus spp.) verified present in Lake Natoma.

6. 6

   Ethogram: two-species turn and acoustic-gaze decoding

   Blind location-swap perturbation protocol and deterministic decoder scoring canine-human button presses, vocal bouts, and gaze vectors against permutation baselines.