ARK Dynamics is a provider of environment and biotechnology facing educational and information materials.

We build bespoke products for audiences ranging from school and university students, to government agencies and companies requiring decision support tools for management of aquatic ecosystems and applied biotechnology.

We specialise in development and deployment of unique suites of cybernetic models describing how physiology and growth of free-living aquatic organisms plays out in dynamic systems. The history of our work stems primarily from interests in aquatic planktonic systems as exemplars of broad ecological concepts (e.g., nutrient recycling, stoichiometric ecology) and for specific ecosystems (e.g., blooms of bioluminescent Noctiluca), and also in microalgal biotechnology and feedstock production.

We bring together over 50 person-years of experience, with core concepts rooted in peer-reviewed science. Our skill sets are primarily directed towards aquatic plankton ecology, but we also have outputs in fields relating to governance and terrestrial ecology, and microalgal biotechnology. We have delivered products as diverse as decision-support tools to government agencies through to EU-funded education materials on ocean literacy and research.

We deliver mainly through a combination of interactive simulations, using a systems dynamics approach, operating on Windows PC platforms and text-based media.

Our current portfolio includes:
> Plankton and Harmful Algal Bloom ecology
> Microalgal culture optimisation decision support tools
> Ocean and Water Literacy materials

We welcome new challenges!