Michael Vardon is an expert in environmental accounting and has been collecting and analyzing data for more than 20 years. His initial studies and career focused on studies of animal population dynamics but his focus shifted when he moved to the Australian Bureau of Statistics in 2000, where he worked on wide range of environmental topics including land management, water and environmental accounting. He became director of the Centre of Environmental Accounting in 2005, a position he left in 2014. He is currently researching and teaching environmental accounting at the Australian National University. https://www.newsdeeply.com/oceans/contributor/michael-vardon/rss en Fri, 20 Oct 2017 04:20:15 +0000 Michael Vardon https://www.newsdeeply.com/oceans/community/2017/10/20/visiting-the-great-barrier-reef-is-a-bargain-and-thats-a-problem https://www.newsdeeply.com/oceans/community/2017/10/20/visiting-the-great-barrier-reef-is-a-bargain-and-thats-a-problem Australian National University’s Michael Vardon argues that the country’s government should hike the marine park’s minimal entry fee to fund conservation of a priceless ecosystem.