Sally Aitken (academic)

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
DisciplineForestry, Conservation genetics
InstitutionsUniversity of British Columbia

Sally Nora Aitken FRSC (born 1961) is a Canadian environmentalist and academic. She has worked with government and industry to use knowledge from forest genetics research to forest management, tree breeding, and genetic conservation.

As of February 2024 she is a professor at the University of British Columbia.