| Acronym | Meaning |
| CTIO | Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory |
| NOET | NASA Operational Environment Team |
| NABSA | Nucleic Acid Based Sequence Amplification |
| DZRS | Double Zeta Roos-Siegbahn (wave Functions) |
| DRO | Diesel-range Organics |
| NCID | National Center For Infectious Diseases |
| JGOFS | Joint Global Ocean Flux Study |
| MAGICC | Model For The Assessment Of Greenhouse-gas Induced Climate Change |
| GARP | Global Atmosphere Resesarch Project |
| VLC | Visible Light-cured |