Offshore wind farms are proliferating fast to increase the share of renawable energy use. While the first and most intense developments were in the North Sea, offshore wind farms are currently being installed in the marine environment of the United States a. Therefore, this project this proposal, we will synthesize information from current OSW farms to determine the expected changes to the benthic systems around OSW development in the northwest Atlantic, and how those changes can propagate through the broader ecosystem. Building from existing regional research, we will predict ecosystem changes due to OSW in a study site selected from one of two research areas in the New York Bight and the Massachusetts/Rhode Island WEAs, then use these predictions to develop a research and monitoring plan for assessing the extent and impacts of these changes.