| Acronym | Meaning |
| ASHES | Axial Seamount Hydrothermal Emissions Study |
| ANC | Acid Neutralizing Capacity |
| RSC | Relative Source Contribution |
| ELED | Edge-emitting Light Emitting Diode |
| HWERL | Hazardous Waste Engineering Research Laboratory (USEPA Cincinnati) |
| RACE | Reactive Accelerated Cluster Erosion |
| DRIS | Double Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy |
| TALEST | Tandem Arrayed Ligation Of Expressed Sequence Tags |
| CLND | Chemiluminescent Nitrogen Detection |
| ARIES | Advanced Recovery And Integrated Extraction System |