Welcome to
Urs’arctos
Research
Software for the science of wild things.
Based in the Yukon, we build research software and offer consulting for wildlife biologists, ecologists, and life scientists, helping turn field data into understanding.
Portfolio
Selected works
01 · Web application
Neutral Landscape Lab
A workbench for neutral landscape models. Generate random and fractal landscapes, find the point where habitat loss breaks a landscape into isolated patches, and export the rasters for your own analyses.
Open the lab landscape.ursarctos.com02 · Web application
Home Range Estimator
Estimate animal home ranges from telemetry fixes using minimum convex polygons or kernel density isopleths, then export area tables and GIS files. Your data and results stay on your device. Only the background maps are downloaded.
Open the estimator homerange.ursarctos.com03 · Mobile game In development
Pet Amoeba
The iPhone and Android virtual pet game that charmed more than 200,000 players, now reimagined. Two squishy amoebas come alive with real-time soft-body physics. They wobble, crawl, grow and learn, in a playground packed with toys, from bubble baths to mini golf.
Visit the game’s site petamoeba.com