Curriculum vitae 2016
Ulrika Beier (née Aldén)
Email: [email protected]
Presentposition Researcher (PhD)
Worktasks
Research and project management regarding stock
assessment, species interactions and population dynamics
under environmental impact, and method development
within data collection and analyses
Competences
I have substantial experience of leading and coordinating projects, also internationally. I have
thorough knowledge within the field of ecology, especially concerning fish in lakes and rivers,
including the Swedish large lakes. I have worked in connection with the EU Water Framework
Directive since 2001. Since 2008 I have worked with analyses of fish stocks and data collection. I
have long experience of counselling in management of fish stocks and inland fisheries to
governmental and regional authorities, non-governmental organisations, and fishermen. I have
good competence in statistics and database management including programming (SPSS, Matlab, R,
SAS, Microsoft Access, SQL-server) and GIS. I am creative, structured and analytic, and enjoy to
take on complicated tasks in a strategic and visionary manner. I like to present results both in
writing and orally. I am an attentive listener and good in communicating. I strive for development,
both in my work and personally.
Languages
Swedish and English – fluent
Dutch and French – good
German and Spanish – basic
Network
My international network comes from EU-projects, cooperation within Nordic countries,
standardization work within CEN as well as intercalibration of methods in connection to the EU
Water framework directive, the FAO, among others. My national network is based within
universities, county board administrations, the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water
Management, the Swedish Environmental Agency and other national and regional authorities, the
WWF as well as the fishermen’s organizations. Personal
I have one adult son and I am married. My hobbies are enjoying nature, sea kayaking, skating and
skiing, music, and literature. I am a kayak leader within the Swedish Outdoor Life Organization
(Friluftsfrämjandet).
Commissionsoftrust(fallingorderofappearance)
Responsibility Organization
Representative
Leader
Secretary
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Year
Statistics@SLU (centre for statistics) steering group, representative of PhD students
SLU Student Union Board, representative of Statistics@SLU
Kayak branch of “Friluftsfrämjandet Mälaröarna”, local unit of the Swedish
Outdoor Life Organization
2011-2014
Housing society “Brf Åkeslund nr 1” (yearly monetary turnover appr. 2 000 000 EUR) 2001-2008
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2014-2016
Curriculum vitae 2016
Workexperience(fallingorderofappearance)
Employer
Project leader ”Stock and ecosystem analysis”
PhD student “Habitat use in fish communities” (50%)
Swedish University of
Project leader ”Stock and ecosystem analysis”
Agricultural Sciences – SLU,
Project leader ”Method development in large lakes”
Department of Aquatic Resources
Project leader ”Stock assessment and effects of fishery”
(from 2011-07, previously
Project leader ”Salmon in Lake Vättern”
Swedish Board of Fisheries – SBF)
Advice w ithin project ”Fishery 2020”; length based
management according to the “optimal length” concept
Project leader and coordinator for update of the WWF fish
guide ”Fish for dinner?” (5th edition) with common launch
WWF
in the Nordic countries (on leave from the SBF)
Period (yr-month)
Position and main work tasks
2017-01 2013-01 - 2016-09
2013-01 – 2015-12
2009-01 – 2013-12
2008-01 – 2012-12
2008-01 – 2009-12
2009-10 – 2010-02
Coordinator for extracting, producing and the delivery of
Swedish data for the EU-projekt EFI+
Leader for the ”Nordic group” – intercalibration of
methods for the assessment of ecological status using
fish in running waters
Part of project group “Web06” (SBF new web page)
Research – development of new environmental quality
criteria for the assessment of ecological status (WFD)
Swedish Board of Fisheries (SBF), using fish in rivers
Research Department,
Project leader ”Resources and Environment
Institute of Freshwater Research
Overview” – coordination of databases and
(IFR)
information within IFR
2009-01 – 2009-04
2007-10 – 2007-12
2006-06 – 2007-12
2006-01 – 2006-12
2005-01 – 2006-05
2003-01 – 2006-12
Representing Research department in steering committee for 2003-01 – 2006-12
GIS matters within the SBF
Leader for work packages ”Selection of national data” +
”Central database” in the EU-project FAME, for a
European index for assessing ecological status (WFD)
SBF, IFR
Botkyrka municipality /
County Administration
Board, Stockholm
Research assistant – “Effects of acidification and liming”
Agroanalys AB
Linköping municipality
VVL VIAK
E. Belfrage
(Swedish Embassy, Paris, France)
1990-10 – 2001-12
Field work – National botanical survey of fields and pastures 1990-07 – 1990-11
Assistant in research projects concerning fish in lakes
Limnological Department,
and rivers
University of Lund
Swedish Environment Agency,
Field assistant ”Birds of prey in the forest landscape
Grimsö Wildlife Research Station 1988-04 – 1988-05, 1989-04 – 1989-06, 1990-04 – 1990-06
Laboratory assistant
Health care assistant
Laboratory assistant
Cook and housekeeper; responsible for business lunches,
dinners etc.
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2002-01 – 2004-12
Representing the SBF in the CEN standardization committee 2002-04 – 2007-12
(task group “Fish methods”)
Research – HMWB ”heavily modified water bodies”
2001-01 – 2002-05
(WFD), case study of River Dalälven
PhD studies – Experiments, field studies, graduate
1993-05 – 1999-09
courses, project title: ”Habitat selection and indirect
interactions in fish communities” (20%)
SBF, IFR /
University of Umeå
1989-08 – 1990-01
1988
– 1990
1987-10 – 1988-04
1987-08 – 1987-09
1986-07 – 1986-08
1984-09 – 1985-06
Curriculum vitae 2016
Education/courses(fallingorderofappearance)
Organizer
Education and length (ects=university points)
Year
SLU
SLU
SLU
SLU
SLU
SLU
SLU
SLU
Luleå University of Technology
SBF (Ernesto Jardim, IPIMAR, PT)
ICES
ICES
SBF
SBF (Swedish Board of Fisheries)
PEP®
Ordfront Education
Universities of Umeå & Stockholm
University of Lund
Institut Catholique, Paris
Adolf Fredrik upper secondary school
Supervision of Doctoral students, 4.5 ects (ongoing)
PhD, 240 ects
Leadership, communication, and conflict management, 3 days
Fisheries ecology and aquatic resource management, 4 ects
Licentiate degree (PhD studies), 120 ects
Teaching basic university education (pedagogics), 4.5 ects
Project management, 2 days
Stock synthesis with SS3 (ADMB and R), 5 days
Quality development: values, methods, tools, 7.5 ects
Introduction to FLR (stock assessment in R), 5 days
Stock assessment – Advanced, 5 days
Stock assessment – Introduction, 5 days
Introduction to R, 5 days
Spatial analysis (GIS), 2 days
Personal efficiency, 3 days
Writing popular science, 10 days
PhD courses (statistics , modelling etc.), 72.7 ects
BSc, aquatic ecology, 180 ects
French for foreigners, level III, 1 year
Natural science programme, 3 years
20162016
2016
2015-2016
2013
2013
2012
2012
2010
2010
2010
2010
2009
2006
2004
1999
1994-1999
1990
1985
1984
Teaching(fallingorderofappearance)
Responsability
Course / students
Year
Teacher
Supervisor
Co-supervisor
SLU Master course “Ecology for fish management and conservation”
Teresa Soler, SLU: “Evolutionary effects of fishery on pikeperch”, Master thesis
Jimmy Blom, Stockholm university: “Late ontogenetic diet shift in Sander
lucioperca and its effects under different management scenarios in Lake Mälaren,
Sweden”, Master thesis
2016-2017
2015
2013
Lectures, various
subjects
Students visiting from Stockholm university and Klarälvdalens folkhögskola
Yearly
2007-2016
Scientificpublications(chronologicalorder)
Rask, M., Appelberg, M., Hesthagen, T., Tammi, J., Beier, U., & Lappalainen, A. 2000. Fish status of Nordic lakes –
species composition, distribution, effects of environmental changes. TemaNord 2000:508.
Beier, U. 2001. Habitat distribution and size structure in freshwater fish communities: effects of vendace on interactions
between perch and roach. – Journal of Fish Biology 59:1437-1454.
Beier, U., Degerman, E., & Bergquist, B. 2001. The use of fish and its implications for ecological classification of running
waters in Sweden. p. 40-43. Ur Classification of Ecological status of lakes and rivers. Bäck, S. & Karttunen, K. (eds.)
TemaNord 2001:584.
Tammi, J., Appelberg, M., Beier, U., Hesthagen, T., Lappalainen, A. & Rask, M. 2003. Fish status survey of Nordic lakes:
effects of acidification, eutrophication and stocking activity on present fish species composition. Ambio 32: 98-105.
Pont, D., Hugueny, B., Beier, U., Goffaux, D., Melcher, A., Noble, R., Rogers, C., Roset, N. & Schmutz, S. 2006. Assessing
river biotic condition at a continental scale: a European approach using functional metrics and fish assemblages.
Journal of Applied Ecology 43: 70–80.
Reyjol, Y., Hugueny, B., Pont, D., Bianco, P.G., Beier, U., Caiola, N., Casals, F., Cowx, I., Economou, A., Ferreira, T.,
Haidvogl, G., Noble, R., Vigneron, T. & Virbickas, T. 2006. Patterns in species richness and endemism of European
freshwater fish. Global Ecol. Biogeogr. 2006: 1-11.
Beier, U., Degerman, E., Melcher, A., Rogers, C. & H. Wirlöf. 2007. Processes of collating a European fisheries
database to meet the objectives of the European Union Water Framework Directive. Fisheries Management and
Ecology 14: 407–416.
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Degerman, E., Beier, U., Breine, J., Melcher, A., Quataert, P., Rogers., C., Roset, N. & Simoens, I. 2007. Classification
and assessment of degradation in European running waters. Fisheries Management and Ecology 14: 417-426.
Schmutz, S., Melcher, A., Frangez, C., Haidvogl, G., Beier, U., Böhmer, J., Breine, J., Simoens, I., Caiola, N., De
Sostoa, A., Ferreira, M.T., Oliveira, J., Grenouillet, G., Goffaux, D., De Leeuw, J.J., Noble, R.A., Roset, N., Virbickas,
T. 2007. Spatially based methods to assess the ecological status of riverine fish assemblages in European ecoregions.
Fisheries Management and Ecology 14: 441–452.
Beier, U. 2013. Habitat selection and indirect interactions in fish communities. Licentiate thesis, Swedish
University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala. Aqua licentiate theses 2013:2. ISBN 978-91-576-9155-2, eISBN
978-91-576-9156-9. http://pub.epsilon.slu.se/10705/
Beier, U. 2016. Habitat use in fish communities - Size- and environment-dependent mechanisms affecting biotic
interactions and population regulation. Doctoral Thesis, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU),
Uppsala. Acta Universitatis agriculturae Sueciae, 1652-6880; 2016:72. ISBN 978-91-576-8646-6, eISBN 978-91-5768647-3. http://pub.epsilon.slu.se/13569/
Beier, U. 2016. Temperature- and light-dependent ratio of energy gain to metabolic costs explains spatial and temporal
habitat use of zooplanktivorous fish. Ecology of Freshwater Fish. doi:10.1111/eff.12290
Manuscripts
Beier, U., Huss, M., Svanbäck, R. and Gårdmark, A. 2016. Size- and environment-dependent biotic interactions
and metabolism affect habitat selection of freshwater fish. (for revision to Oikos)
Beier, U., Huss, M., Svanbäck, R. and Gårdmark, A. 2016. A cold-water fish species in a warming climate – interspecific
competition affected by individual-based processes and habitat use. (manuscript)
Beier, U. & Appelberg, M. 2016. Extending habitat selection in time and space: factors to explain occurrence in
three freshwater fish species with different levels of specialisation. (manuscript)
Selectedreports
Aldén, U. 1992. Behövs pelagiska nät vid provfiske i mindre sjöar? (English summary: Are pelagic gillnets needed
when test-fishing small lakes?) Information från Sötvattenslaboratoriet, Drottningholm (4). p 60-73.
Appelberg, M. och U. Aldén. 1992. Integrerad uppföljning av kalkningens effekter på sjöar och vattendrag - en
treårsrapport. (In Swedish with English summary: Three years of integrated monitoring of limed lakes and rivers in
Sweden.) Information från Sötvattenslaboratoriet, Drottningholm (4). p 1-60.
Beier, U. 2002. Heavily Modified Waters in Europe. Case study of the River Dalälven – Release of reared salmonid fish
as a secondary effect of hydropower. Final Report, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency 2002-06-03, 50 pp.
Degerman, E., Beier, U. & Bergquist, B. 2005. Bedömning av miljötillstånd i kustvattendrag med hjälp av fisk. (In
Swedish, title translated to English: Assessment of environmental status in coastal streams using fish data.)
Fiskeriverket Informerar 2005: 1, 67 pp.
Holmgren, K., Kinnerbäck, A., Pakkasmaa, S., Bergquist, B. & Beier, U. 2007. Bedömningsgrunder för fiskfaunans
status i sjöar - utveckling och tillämpning av EQR8. (In Swedish with English summary: Environmental quality
criteria for fish in lakes – development and application of EQR8.) Fiskeriverket Informerar (Finfo) 2007: 3, 54 pp.
Beier, U., Degerman, E., Sers, B., Bergquist, B. & Dahlberg, M. 2007. Bedömningsgrunder för fiskfaunans status i
rinnande vatten - utveckling och tillämpning av VIX. (In Swedish with English summary: Environmental quality
criteria to determine the status of fish in running waters – development and application of VIX.) Fiskeriverket
Informerar (Finfo) 2007: 5, 59 pp.
Beier, U., Starkie, A. & Vehanen, T. 2007. Report from the Nordic Group – a comparison using the Finnish index FIFI
and the Swedish index VIX. In: Intercalibration of Fish-Based Methods to evaluate River Ecological Quality (Jepsen, E.
& D. Pont, Eds.) JRC Scientific and Technical Reports. EUR 22878 EN. p. 175-192.
Beier, U., Degerman, E., Hammar, J., Sandström, A., Axenrot, T., Bergstrand, E. Filipsson, O. & Nyberg, P. 2011. En
främmande art i Vättern - ekologiska effekter av utsättningar av Gullspångslax. (In Swedish with English summary:
An alien species in Lake Vättern – ecological consequences of stocking of Gullspång salmon.) Fiskeriverket Informerar
(Finfo) 2011: 7, 82 pp.
Beier, U., Axenrot, T. & Bergek, S. 2015. Fisk och fiske i Mälaren. (In Swedish, title translated to English: Fish and
fisheries in Lake Mälaren.) Aqua reports 2015:18 Supplement. Institutionen för akvatiska resurser, SLU, 60 s.
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