There apparently is developing inside the beltway a very preliminary discussion about a national coastal agenda and policy. Sea Grant should be ideally poised to be a major player in such policy discussions. Many Sea Grant-like things are going on in NOAA, but Sea Grant is buried so far in NOAA that it doesn't have a policy clout. Sea Grant is a national programs and the individual Sea Grant Programs are addressing national issues. But the NSGO does not pull it all together.
Information is reported, but it disappears into a void.
If we are going to be in the international Sea Grant business, we need to do it right - many individual state Sea Grant Programs already have significant international components.