Sally Aitken (academic)

Sally Nora Aitken FRSC (born 1961) is a Canadian environmentalist and academic.

Sally Nora Aitken was born in 1961 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

[2] In 2001, Aitken helped start the Centre for Forest Conservation Genetics at UBC alongside Tongli Wang.

[4][5] 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.

[11] In 2017, Aitken was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in the Life Science Division.