FrontMatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 History of Sea Grant Program Review and Assessment -- 3 Critique of the Periodic Assessment Process -- 4 Program Oversight and Management -- 5 Major Findings and Recommendations -- References -- APPENDIXES -- Appendix A Committee and Staff Biographies -- Appendix B List of Acronyms -- Appendix C Key Sea Grant Legislation -- Appendix D National Sea Grant Program Memorandum on NSGO Final Evaluation and Merit Funding, April 22, 1999 -- Appendix E Revised Policy Memorandum on NSGO Final Evaluation and Merit Funding (2005) -- April 8, 2005 -- Appendix F A Multivariate Analysis of Potential Biases in the Final Evaluation Scores -- Appendix G Expected Indicators of Performance and Other Issues of Importance -- Appendix H U.S. Code, Title 33, Chapter 22 -- Appendix I Letter from James Coleman, Chair-NRC Committee Sent to All Individual Sea Grant Program Directors -- Appendix J Executive Summary from "Review and Recommendations: Sea Grant Program Evaluation Process".