Sally Nora Aitken
SpouseJack Woods
Academic background
EducationUniversity of British Columbia (B.S.F, M.Sc.)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
ThesisPopulation genetics of Pinus contorta on coastal and pygmy-forest sites in Mendocino County, California (1990)
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of British Columbia

Sally Nora Aitken FRSC is a Professor and Associate Dean of Research and Innovation at the University of British Columbia. In 2017, Aitken was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Career

After earning her PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, Aitken joining the faculty at Oregon State University. She was then offered a position at the University of British Columbia (UBC) as a NSERC Industrial Research Chair.[1] In 2001, Aitken helped start the Centre for Forest Conservation Genetics at UBC alongside Tongli Wang.[2]

In 2009, Aitken was awarded the Canadian Forestry Scientific Achievement Award[3] and a year later was awarded the UBC Killiam Teaching Prize.[4] In 2012, Aitken became a co-ordinator of the BC BigTree Registry, an online registry that documents big trees of each species in British Columbia.[5][6] She also initiated (with co-Project Leader Andreas Hamann and collaborators) a large-scale applied genomics project titled "AdapTree" which aimed to use genomics and climate-mapping technologies to help reforestation sites improve forest conditions, focussing on lodgepole pine and interior spruce.[7][8]

Due to her involvement with AdapTree, in 2014 Aitken was awarded the IUFRO Scientific Achievement Award for her research into the field of forest conservation genetics.[9] She was also named a Wall Scholar in the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies.[10]

In 2017, Aitken was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in the Life Science Division.[11] In 2018, she was named the recipient of the Genome BC Award for Scientific Excellence by the non-profit organization LifeSciences BC.[12]

Publications

The following is a list of publications:[13]

  • Genetic relationships among wood quality, growth rates and seedling physiology in interior lodgepole pine (1999)
  • Conservation and the genetics of populations (2013)

Personal life

Aitken is married to forestry professional Jack Woods.[14]

References

  1. ↑ "Will my forest look good in these genes?". pagse.org. Retrieved April 17, 2019.
  2. ↑ Sally N. Aitken; Jordan B. Bemmels (2016). "Time to get moving: assisted gene flow of forest trees". Evolutionary Applications. 9 (1): 271–290. Bibcode:2016EvApp...9..271A. doi:10.1111/eva.12293. PMC 4780373. PMID 27087852.
  3. ↑ "CANADIAN FORESTRY SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENT AWARD". cif-ifc.org. Retrieved April 17, 2019.
  4. ↑ Barn, Allison (September 21, 2017). "Eight faculty members named Royal Society of Canada fellows". The Ubyssey. Retrieved April 17, 2019.
  5. ↑ Jordan Chittley (September 30, 2014). "Tree huggers rejoice: B.C.'s largest trees now catalogued in online database". ctvnews.ca. Retrieved April 17, 2019.
  6. ↑ "B.C. BigTree Registry wants your nominations". cbc.ca. October 17, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2019.
  7. ↑ Kimantas, Janet (April 2014). "The Forest's Next Move". alternativesjournal.ca. Retrieved April 17, 2019.
  8. ↑ "UBC Forestry seeking trees with DNA to survive climate change". cbc.ca. September 2, 2015. Retrieved April 17, 2019.
  9. ↑ "THREE FORESTRY PROFESSORS RECOGNIZED FOR ACHIEVEMENTS". forestry.ubc.ca. 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2019.
  10. ↑ "Sally Aitken". pwias.ubc.ca. Retrieved April 17, 2019.
  11. ↑ "CONGRATULATIONS TO SALLY AITKEN FOR BEING NAMED AS A FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA". forestry.ubc.ca. 2017. Retrieved April 17, 2019.
  12. ↑ "SALLY AITKEN NAMED AS 2018 RECIPIENT OF THE GENOME BC AWARD FOR SCIENTIFIC EXCELLENCE". forestry.ubc.ca. Retrieved April 17, 2019.
  13. ↑ "au: Aitken, Sally N." worldcat.org. Retrieved April 17, 2019.
  14. ↑ "FGC Annual Report 2016/17" (PDF). fgcouncil.bc.ca. p. 8. Retrieved April 17, 2019.
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