Ørsted U.S. Offshore Wind has partnered with Rutgers University, the University of Rhode Island and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to launch a passive program to track the critically endangered North Atlantic right whales in an effort to better protect them during construction and operation of the company’s wind farms on the East Coast.

Ørsted’s largest wind farm planned in the U.S. is set to begin construction this year on the Outer Continental Shelf 15 miles off Atlantic City.