Museum Victoria Farewells John Long
After five years as Museum Victoria’s Head of Sciences, Dr John Long is leaving this week to take up the position of Vice President of Research and Collections at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
John’s interest in palaeontology dates back to when he collected his first fossils at the age of seven. Following postgraduate and postdoctoral studies, John worked at several Australian institutions before joining the Western Australian Museum in 1989 as Curator of Vertebrate Palaeontology.
John’s most prominent research at MV has examined the evolution of prehistoric placoderm fishes, which were among the first verebrates to evolve jaws. The fossils that he studies are more than 380 million years old and were discovered in the Gogo Formation of the Western Australian Kimberley region. View More Museum Victoria Farewells John Long