David A. Burton is the owner of Burton Systems Software, 109 Black Bear Ct, Cary, NC 27513 USA.
He has a BS in Systems Science from Michigan State University, and an MA in Computer Sciences from the University of Texas at Austin.
He is a Board Member of NC-20, and one of the organization's Science Advisors. In 2011 he wrote a comprehensive critique of the Coastal Resource Commission's 2010 North Carolina Sea-Level Rise Assessment Report, identifying numerous serious errors in that document, and the following year wrote this paper, published in the journal Natural Hazards: doi:10.1007/s11069-012-0159-8. He is or was also a member of the NC Sea Level Rise Impact Study Advisory Committee, a member of the NC Portal Project Review Committee, a U.N. IPCC AR5 & AR6 WG1 Expert Reviewer, a member of the CO2 Coalition, and creator & webmaster of the sealevel.info web site. (There's an article and discussion about that web site here.)
Contact him by telephone at 1-919-244-3316 (M), or by email
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