| Acronym | Meaning |
| CASSS | California Separation Science Society |
| CARM | Cyclotron Autoresonance Maser |
| NIMS | Near-IR Mapping Spectrometer |
| NPOC | Nonpurgeable Organic Carbon |
| SMOW | Standard Mean Ocean Water |
| PMTR | Photomodulated Thermoreflectance |
| IABO | International Association Of Biological Oceanography (ICSU) |
| LTH | Linearized Time-dependent Hartree (approxn. |
| SCT | Salmon Calcitonin |
| RARE | Rapid Acquisition Relaxation-enhanced |