Professor of Environment and Sustainability, School for Environment and Sustainability, and Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.
burtonal@umich.edu
Office Information:
1068 Dana Building
phone: 734.763.3601
Affiliated Faculty
Education/Degree:
University of Texas at Dallas PhD 1984, MS 1980
About
Dr. Burton is a Professor in the School for Environment and Sustainability and also in 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. His research on ecological risk assessment, sediment contaminant bioavailability and fate dynamics, and aquatic ecosystem stressors has taken him to all seven continents with Visiting Scientist positions in China, New Zealand, Italy and Portugal. His research has focused on sediment and stormwater 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 Water Center and Cooperative Institute of Limnology and Ecosystems Research. He was a Distinguished Faculty Fellow of the Graham Sustainability Institute and the Brage Golding Distinguished Professor of Research at Wright State University. Currently he is Editor-in-Chief of the international journal, Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry, a Fellow and past President of the Society of Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry, and has served on numerous national and international panels with over 200 peer-reviewed publications on aquatic ecosystem issues.