| Acronym | Meaning |
| PI/TL | Principal Investigator/Team Leader |
| ACO | Advance Change Order |
| WOCE | World Ocean Circulation (or Climate) Experiment |
| MEP | Minority Engineering Program |
| O-O | Object-oriented |
| UNOLS | University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System |
| CCM5 | Community Climate Model 5 |
| NAOS | North American Observing System |
| GLIS | Global Land Information System |
| MLSO | Mauna Loa Solar Observatory |