Special lecture: the Toxicology
Centre and the Global Institute
for Water Security (GIWS)
Allen Burton, University of Michigan
The Toxicology Centre and GIWS at the University of Saskatchewan invite you to a special guest
lecture by Dr. Burton, titled
Are Contaminated Sediments an Important Ecosystem Stressor?
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
4:00 p.m.
Room 2104, Western College of Veterinary
Medicine (WCVM)
Dr. Burton is a Professor in the School of
Natural Resources & Environment and also
in the Department of Earth & Environmental
Sciences, and Director of both the Water Center
and the Co-operative Institute of Limnology
and Ecosystems Research at the University
of Michigan. 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. He is Editor-in-Chief of
Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry and has
served on numerous national and international
panels with over 160 peer-reviewed publications.
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