Labs

The Burton Ecotoxicology lab investigates ways to improve risk assessments of aquatic ecosystems by better linking exposure to stressors (chemical and physical) to adverse effects in biota. Particular focus on sediments and nonpoint source runoff and controlling factors of metal and organic chemical bioavailability. The laboratory has a variety of essential water and sediment quality sampling and assessment equipment/instrumentation, such as water quality sondes, sensors/electrodes, spectrophotometer, recirculating sediment flumes and has cultures of several species of organisms which are popular surrogates for toxicity threshold determinations.