G. Allen Burton, Jr., PhD

Dr. Burton is a Professor in the School for Environment and Sustainability and Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences at the University of Michigan. He has an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Roskilde (Denmark), a Concurrent Professor at Nanjing University and 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, and aquatic ecosystem stressors has taken him to all seven continents with Visiting Scientist positions in China, Denmark, Italy, New Zealand and Portugal. His research has focused on sediment and stormwater contaminant risk; understanding chemical bioavailability, stressor causality, ranking of stressors in human dominated waters, and real-time assessment of sites and oil spills.

While at the University of Michigan he served as Director of the Institute for Global Change Biology, the Water Center and the Cooperative Institute of Limnology and Ecosystems Research. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was a Distinguished Faculty Fellow of the Graham Sustainability Institute and the Brage Golding Distinguished Professor of Research.

He served as the Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry, a Fellow and past President of the international Society of Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry; while serving on numerous national and international panels with over 230 peer-reviewed publications.