Awards
Long's awards include the 2001 Eureka Prize for the Promotion of Science, the 2003 Riversleigh Society Medal for promoting the understanding of Australian prehistory, and the 2008 Australasian Science Prize, a prize awarded across all disciplines of science and medicine each year by Australasian Science magazine for excellence in peer-reviewed research. The 2008 Australasian Science Prize was awarded for the discovery of the world's oldest vertebrate embryos. Long's Literary Awards include the 2006 Best Primary Reference book by the Australian Publishers Association for The Big Picture Book- Life on Earth Unfolding Through Time, which also picked up the 2006 Environmental Award for Children's Literature (non-fiction) and was short-listed for the best information book (Eve Pownall Award of the Children's Book Council) and shortlisted for best children's book in the Western Australian Premiers Literary Awards 2006. In 2007 his book Swimming in Stone-The Amazing Gogo Fossils of the Kimberley was shortlisted for the Science writing prize of the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. In 2011 John Long and colleagues Kate Trinajstic, Gavin Young & Tim Senden were short-listed for the prestigious Eureka Prize for Scientific Research. In December 2011 John Long received the 2011 Research Medal of the Royal Society of Victoria (Category Earth Sciences).
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