Sally Aitken

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.

For the film director and producer, see Sally Aitken (director).
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

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. 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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