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Overview

Edward D Burton is affiliated with Southern Cross University in Australia. They specialize in environmental science, with a significant focus on environmental chemistry, geochemistry and petrology, pollution, biomedical engineering, and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

Burton's research predominantly addresses key topics within the environmental sciences, including:

  • Arsenic contamination and mitigation
  • Mine drainage and remediation techniques
  • Heavy metals in environment
  • Metal extraction and bioleaching
  • Iron oxide chemistry and applications
  • Geochemistry and elemental analysis
  • Radioactive element chemistry and processing

The scientist has contributed to numerous publications, with frequent appearances in journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, Journal of Hazardous Materials, ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, SSRN Electronic Journal, and The Science of The Total Environment.

Some recent papers include:

  • "Schwertmannite: A review of its occurrence, formation, structure, stability and interactions with oxyanions," 2021, Earth-Science Reviews
  • "Antimony and arsenic speciation, redox-cycling and contrasting mobility in a mining-impacted river system," 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Antimony Sorption to Goethite: Effects of Fe(II)-Catalyzed Recrystallization," 2020, ACS Earth and Space Chemistry
  • "Antimony mobility in sulfidic systems: Coupling with sulfide-induced iron oxide transformations," 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • "Arsenic-Imposed Effects on Schwertmannite and Jarosite Formation in Acid Mine Drainage and Coupled Impacts on Arsenic Mobility," 2021, ACS Earth and Space Chemistry

Burton frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • N. Karimian
  • Scott G. Johnston
  • Girish Choppala
  • Kerstin Hockmann
  • Dane Lamb

Best Publications

  • Arsenic removal by perilla leaf biochar in aqueous solutions and groundwater: An integrated spectroscopic and microscopic examination.

    Nabeel Khan Niazi;Nabeel Khan Niazi;Nabeel Khan Niazi;Irshad Bibi;Muhammad Shahid;Yong Sik Ok

  • Sorption of arsenic(V) and arsenic(III) to schwertmannite.

    Edward D Burton;Richard T Bush;Scott G Johnston;Kim M Watling

  • Arsenic mobility during flooding of contaminated soil: the effect of microbial sulfate reduction.

    Edward D Burton;Scott G Johnston;Benjamin D Kocar

  • A sequential extraction procedure for acid-sulfate soils: Partitioning of iron

    Salirian R. Claff;Leigh A. Sullivan;Edward D. Burton;Richard T. Bush

  • Schwertmannite transformation to goethite via the Fe(II) pathway: reaction rates and implications for iron-sulfide formation

    Edward D Burton;Richard T Bush;Leigh A Sullivan;David Rg Mitchell

  • Mobility of arsenic and selected metals during re-flooding of iron- and organic-rich acid-sulfate soil

    Edward Burton;Richard T Bush;Leigh Sullivan;Scott G Johnston

  • Reductive transformation of iron and sulfur in schwertmannite-rich accumulations associated with acidified coastal lowlands

    Edward D. Burton;Richard T. Bush;Leigh A. Sullivan;David R.G. Mitchell

  • Iron and sulfur cycling in acid sulfate soil wetlands under dynamic redox conditions: A review

    Niloofar Karimian;Scott G Johnston;Edward D Burton

  • Sulfur biogeochemical cycling and novel Fe-S mineralization pathways in a tidally re-flooded wetland

    Edward D. Burton;Richard T. Bush;Scott G. Johnston;Leigh A. Sullivan

  • A simple and inexpensive chromium-reducible sulfur method for acid-sulfate soils

    Edward D. Burton;Leigh A. Sullivan;Richard T. Bush;Scott G. Johnston

  • Microbial sulfidogenesis in ferrihydrite-rich environments: Effects on iron mineralogy and arsenic mobility

    Edward D. Burton;Scott G. Johnston;Richard T. Bush

  • Sedimentary iron geochemistry in acidic waterways associated with coastal lowland acid sulfate soils

    Edward D. Burton;Richard T. Bush;Leigh A. Sullivan

  • Coupling of arsenic mobility to sulfur transformations during microbial sulfate reduction in the presence and absence of humic acid

    Edward D. Burton;Scott G. Johnston;Britta Planer-Friedrich

  • Acid-Volatile Sulfide Oxidation in Coastal Flood Plain Drains: Iron-Sulfur Cycling and Effects on Water Quality

    Edward D Burton;Richard T Bush;Leigh A Sullivan

  • Iron-monosulfide oxidation in natural sediments: resolving microbially mediated S transformations using XANES, electron microscopy, and selective extractions.

    Edward D Burton;Richard T Bush;Leigh A Sullivan;Rosalie Katherine Hocking

  • Arsenic sorption to nanoparticulate mackinawite (FeS): An examination of phosphate competition.

    Nabeel Khan Niazi;Nabeel Khan Niazi;Nabeel Khan Niazi;Edward D. Burton

  • Schwertmannite: A review of its occurrence, formation, structure, stability and interactions with oxyanions

    Valerie A. Schoepfer;Edward D. Burton

  • Antimony and arsenic behavior during FE(II)-induced transformation of jarosite

    Niloofar Karimian;Scott G. Johnston;Edward D. Burton

  • Antimony and arsenic speciation, redox-cycling and contrasting mobility in a mining-impacted river system

    Scott G. Johnston;William W. Bennett;Nicholas Doriean;Kerstin Hockmann

  • Diffusive Gradients in Thin Films Reveals Differences in Antimony and Arsenic Mobility in a Contaminated Wetland Sediment during an Oxic-Anoxic Transition.

    Maja Arsic;Peter R Teasdale;David Thomas Welsh;Scott G Johnston

  • Sulfur, iron and carbon cycling following hydrological restoration of acidic freshwater wetlands

    Scott G. Johnston;Edward D. Burton;Thor Aaso;Gerard Tuckerman

  • Iron monosulfide accumulation and pyrite formation in eutrophic estuarine sediments

    Peter Kraal;Edward D. Burton;Richard T. Bush

  • Fractionation and extractability of sulfur, iron and trace elements in sulfidic sediments

    Edward D. Burton;Richard T. Bush;Leigh A. Sullivan

Frequent Co-Authors

Leigh A Sullivan
Leigh A Sullivan University of Canberra
Richard T Bush
Richard T Bush University of Newcastle Australia
Scott G Johnston
Scott G Johnston Southern Cross University
Darryl William Hawker
Darryl William Hawker Griffith University
Rosalie K. Hocking
Rosalie K. Hocking Swinburne University of Technology
Nabeel Khan Niazi
Nabeel Khan Niazi University of Agriculture Faisalabad
David R. G. Mitchell
David R. G. Mitchell University of Wollongong
Rob Fitzpatrick
Rob Fitzpatrick University of Adelaide
Irshad Bibi
Irshad Bibi University of Agriculture Faisalabad
Mats E. Åström
Mats E. Åström Linnaeus University

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