| Acronym | Meaning |
| JOIDES | Joint Oceanographic Institutions For Deep Earth Sampling |
| ESTEC | European Space Research And Technology Centre |
| STOIC | Stratospheric Ozone Intercomparison Campaign |
| HBGF | Heparin-binding Growth Factor |
| TSA | Temperature Swing Adsorption |
| SWKB | Supersymmetric Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (quantum Method) |
| PAO | Polyphosphate Accumulating Organism |
| LC-ESI-MS/MS | Liq. Chromatog.-electrospray Ionization-tandem Mass Spectrometry |
| NBSB | National Biomonitoring Specimen Bank |
| WRAP | Waste Receiving And Processing |