Yes, there is a vast difference in how my research has been taken by the department compared with how it's been taken internationally. I'm repeatedly asked to collaborate on international studies that employ the kinds of technological approaches that I have employed and developed as a scientist in Canada while working for Fisheries and Oceans, and it's fairly rare that I've been asked to employ those technologies within my department.
I do collaborate extensively with universities, with the Pacific Salmon Foundation, and with affiliates in Norway and in other parts of Europe as well as the U.S. It has been a frustration, I have to say, in my scientific career to be much less valued in my own department than I am internationally.