Dr. G. Allen Burton
Work and Contact Information
EMPLOYER:
- University of Michigan
- 440 Church Street
- Ann Arbor, MI 48109
EMAIL: burtonal@umich.edu
WEBPAGE: https://websites.umich.edu/~burtonal/
About the Contributor
Dr. G. Allen Burton is a Professor at the University of Michigan at the School for Environment and Sustainability and in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. He has an Honorary Doctorate from the Roskilde University in Denmark, is a Concurrent Professor at Nanjing University in China, and is an Honorary Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment in Beijing, China. His research has focused on sediment and stormwater contaminants, bioavailability processes, effects and ecological risk at multiple trophic levels, and ranking stressor importance in human dominated watersheds. He assisted the U.S. EPA in developing their sediment toxicity test methods and has received over ten million dollars in extramural research funding. His 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 and Portugal. While at the University of Michigan he has served as Director of the Water Center and the Cooperative Institute of Limnology and Ecosystems Research (CILER). He was a Distinguished Faculty Fellow of the Graham Sustainability Institute and the Brage Golding Distinguished Professor of Research. He was formerly the Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry, a Fellow and past President of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, and has served on numerous national and international panels with over 200 peer-reviewed publications on aquatic ecosystem risk issues.
