| Acronym | Meaning |
| AFBS | Anaerobic Fluidized Bed Systems |
| HST | Hubble Space Telescope |
| SAES | State Agricultural Experiment Stations |
| ADAM | Average Depleted Antarctic Meltwater |
| FAB | Fast Atom Bombardment (mass Spectrometry) |
| TRRFC | Time-resolved Radio Frequency Conductivity |
| GASP | Gamma Astronomy At The South Pole |
| HERCULES | High Efficiency Radiation Counter For Ultimate Low Emission Sensitivity |
| IDWSSD | International Drinking Water Supply And Sanitation Decade (of UN |
| EVB | Effective Valence Bond (hamiltonian) |