| Acronym | Meaning |
| DHA | Docosahexaenoic Acid |
| NWQMC | National Water Quality Monitoring Council |
| ASMS | American Society For Mass Spectrometry |
| TAFE | Transverse Alternating-field Electrophoresis |
| DLA | Diffusion-Limited Aggregation |
| GFAAS | Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy |
| DIPP | Deformed Inverse-power Potential |
| LUST | Leaking Underground Storage Tank |
| SPE | Solar Proton Event |
| LOESS | Locally Weighted Smoothers [in Modeling] |