Allison Crimmins is an American

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and the director of the National Climate Assessment in the United States since 2021. She was appointed by President Joe Biden, and replaced

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appointee Betsy Weatherhead. She has a master of science in oceanography from

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and a master in public policy from the

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, and worked with the U.S. Global Change Research Program in 2016. She currently works for the

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. In 2020, she called for the United States to have a "Department of Climate" to deal with

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