Project Overview

The Ørsted Ecosystem and Passive Acoustic Monitoring (ECO-PAM) project is a partnership between Ørsted North America, Rutgers University, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and the University of Rhode Island.

The purpose of ECO-PAM is to advance research for detection of North Atlantic right whale, to better understand their presence, distribution and seasonality and to contribute to characterization of their habitat in offshore wind lease areas. Specifically, ECO-PAM will be intensely focused on the Ørsted Ocean Wind lease area off of New Jersey, but will also include sampling in Ørsted lease areas around Massachusetts. The project will include two acoustic monitoring buoys deployed by WHOI, an acoustic vector sensor buoy developed by URI, and an autonomous underwater glider deployed by Rutgers. Additional information on these components are available in their respective sections.