I'm asking in good faith here. If it's so critical, then why couldn't the same data be collected and published by another sovereign nation?
What makes you think the US is the only country conducting such experiments?
Or even the UN? That organization that this administration wants no part of...
I'm guessing you need permission to go deploy a bunch of buoys off the coast of Oregon, and that permission may be difficult to obtain for foreign research projects in the current US political climate.