Greg Ayers is an Australian

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and was Director of the

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from March 2009 until February 2012, when he resigned due to ill health. Prior to his working at the Bureau of Meteorology, Ayers was Chief of Marine and Atmospheric Research at the CSIRO, where he had worked since 1975. Ayers is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. He was educated at

Monash University Monash University () is a public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Named for prominent World War I general Sir John Monash, it was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. The university h ...

, where he obtained a

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(with honours) and a PhD. In February 2011 he responded to Cardinal

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's scepticism and ignorance about

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during a

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hearing.

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