Pat Moriarty, Ph.D., a senior engineer at NREL's National Wind Technology Center, where he spends most of his time researching statistical loads extrapolation techniques for wind turbine design. He has developed new design techniques that enable industry to more reliably predict loads and produce cheaper designs. This work is included in the IEC International design standard 61400-1, edition 3, published in 2004. Moriarty continues to research wind turbine design and aeroacoustics of wind turbines. He is also involved in the development and continuing improvement of empirical codes for noise prediction and has developed and helped improve current aerodynamic prediction routines used in wind turbine simulation programs. He is the associate editor of the Journal of Solar Energy Engineering. Prior to joining NREL, Moriarty spent nearly two years at RANN, Inc. examining active control of wind turbines under subcontract from NREL. He also worked at NASA Ames Research Center and has collaborated with Boeing, Florida State University, and NASA Langley Research Center. He helped start the Center for Research and Education in Wind (CREW) and has been an instructor in wind energy at CU-Boulder since 2006.