| Acronym | Meaning |
| IRIS | Integrated Risk Information System |
| CMT | Cadmium Mercury Telluride |
| ASHES | Axial Seamount Hydrothermal Emissions Study |
| GHRS | Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph |
| BEAR | Business And Environmentalists In An Alliance For Recycling |
| BAP | Bioavailable Phosphorus |
| ICSU | International Council Of Scientific Unions |
| ILSI | International Life Sciences Institute |
| MSMA | Murrell-Shaw-Musher-Amos Exchange Perturbation Theory |
| IPA | Independent-particle Approximation (in Quantum Calcns. On Solids) |