Dr Edward D Burton BSc(Hons)(Griff), PhD(Griff) Dr Burton's research integrates field studies, controlled experimentation and modelling to better understand iron-sulfur geochemistry and contaminant behaviour in soils and sediments. Since completing his PhD in 2005, he has attracted over $870,000 in competitive research grants, including 3 large Australian Research Council grants (DP0772050, LP0882141, LE0989952) as well as many smaller grants from national and international agencies. Within the last 5 years, he has published 27 papers on topics such as contemporary sulfur biomineralisation, the environmental geochemistry of arsenic and trace metals and the oxidative geochemistry of iron sulfide minerals. For further information about any of these publications please contact the author.
Journal articles
Coupling of arsenic mobility to sulfur transformations during microbial sulfate reduction in the presence and absence of humic acid (with Scott G. Johnston and Britta Planer-Friedrich), Chemical Geology (2013)
Microbial sulfate reduction is an important terminal electron accepting process in arsenic-contaminated subsurface environments. Humic...
Decoupling between water column oxygenation and benthic phosphate dynamics in a shallow eutrophic estuary (with Peter Kraal, Andrew L. Rose, Michael D. Cheetham, Richard T. Bush, and Leigh A. Sullivan), Environmental Chemical Society (2013)
Estuaries are crucial biogeochemical filters at the land–ocean interface that are strongly impacted by anthropogenic...
Seawater-induced mobilization of trace metals from mackinawite-rich estuarine sediments (with Vanessa NL Wong, Scott G. Johnston, Richard T. Bush, Leigh A. Sullivan, and Peter G. Slavich), Water Research (2013)
Benthic sediments in coastal acid sulfate soil (CASS) drains can contain high concentrations (∼1–5%)...
Sulfate availability drives divergent evolution of arsenic speciation during microbially mediated reductive transformation of schwertmannite (with Scott G. Johnston, Peter Kraal, Richard T. Bush, and Salirian Claff), Environmental Science & Technology (2013)
The effect of SO42– availability on the microbially mediated reductive transformation of As(V)-coprecipitated schwertmannite (Fe8O8(OH)3.2(SO4)2.4(AsO4)0.004)...
Arsenic mobilization and iron transformations during sulfidization of As(V)-bearing jarosite (with Scott G. Johnston, Annabelle F. Keene, Britta Planer-Friedrich, Andreas Voegelin, Mark G. Blackford, and Greg R. Lumpkin), Chemical Geology (2012)
Jarosite (KFe3(SO4) 2(OH)6) is an important host-phase for As in acid mine drainage (AMD) environments...
Conference publications
A critical evaluation of Retained Acidity (AR) estimating methods in Acid Base Account (ABA) approach for Acid Sulfate Soils (ASS) (with Chamindra Vithana, Leigh A. Sullivan, and Richard T. Bush), 3rd National Conference on Acid Sulfate Soils (2012)
An acid sulfate soil precursor: iron, phosphorus and sulfur dynamics in sediments from the Peel-Harvey estuary, WA (with Peter Kraal, Richard T. Bush, Michael D. Cheetham, and Leigh A. Sullivan), 3rd National Acid Sulfate Soil Conference (2012)
The Peel-Harvey Estuary in south-western Australia is faced with a dire combination of man-made challenges....
Arsenic mobilization during seawater inundation of acid sulfate soils - hydro-geochemical coupling at the tidal fringe (with Scott G. Johnston, Annabelle F. Keene, Richard T. Bush, and Leigh A. Sullivan), Understanding the geological-medical interface of arsenic: 4th International Congress on Arsenic in the Environment (2012)
Hydro-geochemical coupling in seawater inundation acid sulfate soils: mobilisation of arsenic and hysteresis in iron and sulfur cycling (with Scott G. Johnston, Annabelle F. Keene, Richard T. Bush, and Leigh A. Sullivan), 3rd National Conference on Acid Sulfate Soils (2012)
A large-scale field trial indicates that tidal seawater inundation of coastal acid sulfate soils (CASS)...