| Acronym | Meaning |
| HL | Half Life |
| BCS | Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer |
| HPO | High Performance Option |
| PROBE | Portable Remote Observations Of The Environment |
| ECU | Environmental Crimes Unit |
| RW | Rain Showers |
| SCCCAMP | South Central Coast Cooperative Aerometric Monitoring Program |
| BNWL | Battelle Northwest Laboratory |
| TIFF | Tag Image File Format |
| STL | Space Technology Laboratory |