April Lamb

April Lamb joined NCICS in 2022 as a Scientific Technical Editor with the Assessments team, and in January 2024, she transitioned to a position as Scientific Graphics Quality Coordinator.

In this role, she provides graphics and data support for multiple assessments, including the State Summaries, the United by Nature Assessment, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group III contribution to the Seventh Assessment Report. She also serves as the WGIII representative for the IPCC Task Group on Data Support for Climate Change Assessments (TG-Data).

Ms. Lamb has nearly a decade of experience designing high-quality graphics and data visualizations for manuscripts, reports, articles, and assessments. In 2024, she was awarded the NC State Pride of the Wolfpack Award for her contributions to the Fifth National Climate Assessment.

Prior to joining NCICS, Ms. Lamb worked as a researcher on topics surrounding ecological resilience and biodiversity loss in coastal and marine ecosystems. She is a former NSF graduate research fellow and holds a BS in Zoology, a GIS certificate, and an MS in Biology from North Carolina State University.