Career
His research interests are broad, and have encompassed not only the anatomy, systematics, and genetics of mollusks, but also various aspects of zoogeography and parasitology. He has engaged in extensive fieldwork around the world, usually collecting mollusks, especially freshwater and terrestrial species. Some sample taken in Tahiti in 1970 have proven to be of importance in efforts to conserve vanishing kinds of the land snail Partula.
He is a son of biologist Paul Randolph Burch (1898–1958.
United States of America). Burch is Associate Editor of the malacological journal Malacologia. Meghimatium burchi Tsai & Wu, 2008.
