Professor
School for Environment & Sustainability
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
Dr. Burton is a Professor in both the School of Sustainability & Environment and the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences. He has an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Roskilde (Denmark), is a Concurrent Professor at Nanjing University and an Honorary Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment in Beijing China.
Dr. Burton’s research on ecological risk assessment, sediment quality criteria, and aquatic ecosystem stressors has taken him to all seven continents with Visiting Scientist positions in New Zealand, Italy, Denmark and Portugal. His research has focused on sediment and storm water contaminants and understanding bioavailability processes, effects and ecological risk at multiple trophic levels, and ranking stressor importance in human dominated watersheds.
While at the University of Michigan he has served as Director of the Institute for Global Change Biology, the Water Center and the Cooperative Institute of Limnology and Ecosystems Research.
He was Editor-in-Chief of the international journal, Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry, past president of the Society of Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry, and has served on numerous national and international panels. He has authored 235 peer-reviewed publications.
Dr. Burton’s research on ecological risk assessment, sediment quality criteria, and aquatic ecosystem stressors has taken him to all seven continents with Visiting Scientist positions in New Zealand, Italy, Denmark and Portugal. His research has focused on sediment and storm water contaminants and understanding bioavailability processes, effects and ecological risk at multiple trophic levels, and ranking stressor importance in human dominated watersheds.
While at the University of Michigan he has served as Director of the Institute for Global Change Biology, the Water Center and the Cooperative Institute of Limnology and Ecosystems Research.
He was Editor-in-Chief of the international journal, Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry, past president of the Society of Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry, and has served on numerous national and international panels. He has authored 235 peer-reviewed publications.