• B.Sc (hons) Geology, Leicester University, UK.
• M.Sc. Geology, University of Western Ontario, ON,
• Ph.D. Geology, University of Western Ontario, ON,

Precambrian and Phanerozoic clastic and carbonate sedimentology, architecture and basin analysis.

• 2011 Douglas Medal, Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists

• 1. LONG, D.G.F., and Turner, E.C., 2012 Tectonic, sedimentary and metallogenic re-evaluation of basal strata in the Mesoproterozoic Bylot basins, Nunavut, Canada: Are unconformity-type uranium concentrations a realistic expectation? Precambrian Research 192-209.
• 2. LONG, D.G.F., and Lowey, G.W., 2011. Wandering gravel-bed rivers and high-constructive stable channel sandy fluvial systems in the Ross River area, Yukon Territory, Canada. Geoscience Frontiers, 2 (3): 277-288.
• 3. LONG, D.G.F., 2011. Architecture and depositional style of fluvial systems before land plants: a comparison of Precambrian, early Paleozoic and modern river deposits. In S.K. Davidson, S. Leleu, and C.P. North (Eds.), From river to rock record: the preservation of fluvial sediments and their subsequent interpretation. SEPM Special Publication 97: 37-61.
• 4. Ulrich, T., LONG, D.G.F., Kamber, B.S., and Whitehouse, M.J., 2011. In-situ trace element and sulphur isotope analysis of pyrite in a Paleoproterozoic gold placer deposit, Pardo and Clement Townships, Ontario, Canada. Economic Geology 106: 667-686.
• 5. LONG, D.G.F., Ulrich, T., and Kamber, B.S., 2011. Laterally extensive modified placer gold deposits in the Paleoproterozoic Mississagi Formation, Clement and Pardo Townships, Ontario. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 48: 779-792.