Joan M. Von Ahn

STG, Inc /NOAA/NWS/OPC

Joan M. Von Ahn holds a BS and MS degree in both meteorology and oceanography. As a meteorologist in the National Weather Service, Von Ahn worked in the Aviation Weather Branch and in the Office of Meteorology- most notably as an on-air meteorologist on the public television program AM Weather. After a brief stint as a back up TV meteorologist at WRC-TV in Washington, DC, Von Ahn returned to the National Weather Service as a contractor in the Ocean Prediction Center, to verify the impact of QuikSCAT winds on the forecast and analysis process. Von Ahn has recently joined the Ocean Applications branch as a staff Meteorologist.