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A
AA Assistant Administrator
AA Atomic Absorption
A/D Analog/Digital
AAAS American Association for the Advancement of Science
AAG American Association of Geographers
AAPG American Association of Petroleum Geologist
AAS Alternate Air Source
AAUS American Academy of Underwater Sciences
ABI Advanced Baseline Imager
ABI Association of Biodiversity Informatics
ABS Animal behavior Society
ABT Actual Bottom Time
ACME Advisory Committee on the Marine Environment
ACMRR Advisory Committee of Experts on Marine Resources Research
ACOE Army Corps of Engineers
ACS Association of Caribbean States
ACS American Chemical Society
ACS American Cetacean Society
ADC Affiliated Data Center
ADC Analog Digital Converter
ADCP Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler
ADEPD Atlantic Data Base for Exchange Processes at the Deep Sea Floor
ADP Adenosine diphosphate
ADT Actual Dive Time
AFD French Development Agency
AFS American Fisheries society
AGE Arterial Gas Embolism
AGI American Geological Institute
AGRA Atlantic and Gulf Reef Assessment
AGRRA Atlantic and Gulf Rapid Reef Assessment
AGU American Geophysical Union
AHPS Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service (NOAA)
AIBS American Institute of Biological Sciences
AIMS Australian Institute of Marine Science
AIS Aquatic Invasive Species
ALTA Active Long Term Archive
AMLC Association of Marine Laboratories of the Caribbean
AMNH American Museum of Natural History
ANBS Asian Network of Biological Sciences
ANDI American Nitrox Divers Incorporated
ANS Aquatic Nuisance Species
ANSI American National Standards Institute
AODC Australian Oceanographic Data Center
AOL Airborne Oceanographic Lidar
AOML Atlantic Oceanographic and meteorological Laboratory
AOSIS Alliance of Small Island States (USA)
APAR Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation
APEC Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
APEX Autonomous Profiling Explorers
APN Asia Pacific Network
Aqua NASA Earth Science Mission
ARDRA Amplified Ribosomal DNA Restriction Analysis
ARL Air Resources Laboratory (NOAA)
ARMDES AIMS Reef Monitoring Data Entry System
ARS Autonomous Replicating Sequence
AS American SamoaAquatic Nuisance Species
ASC Association of Systematics Collections
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASCRMP American Samoa Coral Reef Monitoring Program
ASEAN Association of South East Asian Nations
ASFIS Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Information System
ASFPM Association of State Floodplain ManagersAquatic Nuisance Species
ASG American Samoa Government
ASIH American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Aquatic Nuisance Species
ASIRC Aquatic Sciences Information Retrieval Center
ASLO American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
ATA Atmosphere Absolute
ATBI All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory
ATP Adenosine Triphosphate
ATSR Along-Track Scanning Radiometer
AUSAID Australian Agency for International Development
AUV Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
AVIRIS Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer
AVISO "Archiving, Validation and Interpretation of Satellite Oceanographic data"
AVTAS AIMS Video Transect Analysis System
AWI Alfred Wegner Institute
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B
BAPPEDA Directory of Development Planning Board
BATS Biosphere-Atmosphere Transfer Scheme
BATS Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Station
BBD Black-Band Disease
BBSR Bermuda Biological Station for Research
BC Brazil Current
BCD Buoyancy Control Device
BCF Bureau of Commercial Fisheries (now NMFS)
BCIS Biodiversity Conservation Information System
BCLME Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem
BCMEC British Columbia Marine Ecological Classification
BENEFIT Benguela Environment Fisheries Interaction and Training
BIOS Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences
BIRNM Buck Island Reef National Monument
BLOG weB LOG
BMNS Bishop Museum of Natural Sciences
BMP Best Management Practices
BMUS Bottomfish Management Unit Species
BNDO Bureau National des Donnees Oceaniques (France)
BNL Benthic Nepheloid Layer
BNM Belau National Museum
BNP Biscayne National Park
BOD Biological/Biochemical Oxygen Demand
BOFS Biogeochemical Ocean Flux Study
BOTC Basic Officer Training Course (NOAA)
BotCam Bottom Camera Station
BPR Bottom Pressure Recorder
BS Bird Sanctuary
BT Bathythermograph
Buck Island NWR Buck Island National Wildlife Refuge
  
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C
C&GC Climate and Global Change Program
C&GS Office of Charting and Geodetic Services
CABS Center for Applied Biodiversity Science
CABSMPD Center for Applied Biodiversity Science and the Marine Programs Division
CaMPAM Caribbean Marine Protected Area Management
CANARI Caribbean Natural Resources Institute
CaRA Caribbean Regional Association
Caribbean Islands NWR Caribbean Islands National Wildlife Refuge complex
CARICOM Caribbean Community
CARICOMP Caribbean Coastal Marine Productivity Program
CARIPOL Marine Pollution Monitoring Program in the Caribbean [IOCARIBE]
CARIRI Caribbean Industrial Research Institute
Caro-COOPS Carolinas Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction System
CARRUS Alliance Comparative Analysis of Reef Resilience Under Stress Alliance
CAS California Academy of Sciences
CASI Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager
CAST Caribbean Association for Sustainable Tourism
CAT Collaborative Acoustic Telemetry (NOAA)
CATHALAC Centro del Agua del Tropico Humedo para America Latina y el Caribe
CATIE Centro Agronomico Tropical de Investigacion y Ensenanza
CBM Community-based Management
CC Crushed Coral
CCA Caribbean Conservation Association
CCAD Central American Commission on Environment and Development
CCBA Closed Circuit Breathing Apparatus
CCC Coral Cay Conservation
CCC Coastal Coordination Committee
CCC/STSL Caribbean Conservation Corporation & Sea Turtle Survival League
CCCO Committee on Climatic Changes and the Ocean
C-CCREMP Comprehensive Caribbean Coral Reef Ecosystem Monitoring Project (NOAA)
CCD Coastal Community Development
CCDC Caribbean Coastal Data Centre
CCEHBR Center for Coastal Environmental Health and Biomolecular Research (NOAA)
CCFHR Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research (NOAA)
CCMA Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (NOAA)
CCMI Central Caribbean Marine Institute
CCRI Caribbean Coral Reef Institute
CDC CDC Centers for Disease Control
CDC Conservation Data Center (UVI)
CDE Centre for Development and Environment
CDHC Coral Disease and Health Consortium
CDNA complementary DNA
CDOM Colored Dissolved Organic Matter
CD-ROM Compact Disk-Read Only Memory
CDSS Caribbean Decision Support System
CE Categorical Exclusion
CE Common Era; Current Era; Christian Era
CEDAM Conservation, Education, Diving, Awareness and Marine-research
CEES Committee on Earth and Environmental Sciences
CEHI Caribbean Environmental Health Institute
CELCP Coastal and Estuarine Land Conservation Program (NOAA)
CEMCS Coastal/Marine Ecological Classification Standard
CEP Caribbean Environment Program
CEPEX Central Equatorial Pacific Experiment
CEQ Council on Environmental Quality
CERP Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan
CFC Chlorofluorocarbon
CFMC Caribbean Fishery Management Council
CFR Federal Consistency Regulations
CFS Coefficient of Faunal Similarity
CG Coast Guard
CGC Climate and Global Change
CGIAR Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
CHAMP Coral Health And Monitoring Program (NOAA)
CHPP Cooperative Habitat Protection Partnerships (NOAA)
CI Conservation International
CIAP Coastal Impact Assistance Program
CICAR Cooperative Investigations of the Caribbean & Adjacent Regions
CICAR Cooperative Institute for Climate Applications and Research
CICEET Cooperative Institute for Coastal and estuarine Environmental Technology
CICS Cooperative Institute for Climate Science (NOAA/Princeton University)
CIESIN Center for International Earth Science Information Network
CIM University of Havana's Center for Marine Research
CIMAR Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias del Mar y Limnologia (Universidad de Costa Rica)
CIMAS Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies
CINVESTAV Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados
CITES Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna
CLASS Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System (NOAA)
CLD Coralline Lethal Disease
CLEO Coral Literature, Education & Outreach
CLIVAR Climate Variability and Predictability
CLOD Coralline Lethal Orange Disease
CM Current Meter
C-MAN Coastal Marine Automated Network (NOAA)
CMB Centre for Marine Biodiversisty
CMDL Climate Monitoring and Diagnositics Laboratory (NOAA)
CMDL Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (NOAA)
CMIS Conical Scanning Microwave Imager/Sounder
CMRC Caribbean Marine Research Center
CMS Center for Marine Science
CNMI Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
CNP Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program
COBRA Coastal Barrier Resources Act; also CBRA
COBSEA Coordinating Body on the Seas of East Asia
COCCYTAC Comite Cunsultor Cientifico y Tecnico de los Arrecifes Coralinos
COD Chemical Oxygen Demand
COE U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (properly USACE)
COFI Committee on Fisheries (UN FAO)
CoML Census of Marine Life
CONANP Comision Nacional de areas Naturales Protegidas
CoOP Coastal Ocean Processes
COP Coastal Ocean Program (NOAA); now known as CSCOR
COP Conference of the Parties (to the CBD)
CORAL Coral Reef Alliance
CORDIO Coral Reef Degradation in the Indian Ocean
CORE Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education
COREMAP Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Project
CoRIS Coral Reef Information System (NOAA)
CoRViL Coral Reef Virtual Laboratory
COSTA Climate Observing System for the Tropical Atlantic (NOAA)
COTS Crown-of-Thorns-Starfish
COTS Commercial Off The Shelf
COTS Coastal Observation Technology System (NOAA)
CPACC Caribbean : Planning for Adaptation to Global Climate Change
CPD Coastal Programs Division (NOAA)
CPP Coral Parks Program Chlorofluorocarbon
CPUE Catch Per Unit Effort
CR Critically Endangered
CRAG American Samoa Coral Reef Advisory Group
CRAMP Coral Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program
CRC REEF Cooperative Research Center for the Great Barrier Reef
CRCA Coral Reef Conservation Act of 2000
CRCP Coral Reef Conservation Program (NOAA)
CRED Coral Reef Ecosystems Division (NOAA)
Creefs Census of Coral Reefs
CREI Coral Reef Ecosystem Investigation
CREIOS Coral Reef Ecosystems Integrated Observing System (NOAA)
CREMP Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Program
CRES Coral Reef Ecosystem Studies
CRES Coral Reef Ecosystems Studies- Caribbean Program
CREWS Coral Reef Early Warning System (NOAA)
CRI Coral Reef Initiative
CRIOBE Centre de Recherches Insulaires et Observatoir de Environnement
CRISP Coral Reef Initiative for the South Pacific
CRMO Coastal Resources Mangement Office (CNMI)
CROGEE Committee on Restoration of the Greater Everglades Ecosystem
CRON Coral Reef Outreach Network
CRP Community-Based Restoration Program
CRRF Coral Reef Research Foundation
CRSA Coral Reef Survey Assessment
CRSP Caribbean Regional Seas Program
CRTR Coral reef Targeted Research & Capacity Building for Management Project
CRU UNEP Coral Reef Unit
CRUST-SOC The Crustacean Society
CRW Coral Reef Watch (NOAA)
CSC Coastal Services Center (NOAA)
CSCOR Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research (NOAA); formerly COP
CSD Convention for Sustainable Development
CSI Coral Sea Islands
CSIRO Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization
CSO Coastal States Organization
CSP Coastal Storms Program
CTD Conductivity, Temperature, Depth (Profiler)
CTDO Conductivity-Temperature-Depth-Oxygen Profile
CTP Coastal Training Program
CW Coast Watch
CWA Clean Water Act (1977 - FWPCA of 1972)
CWPPRA Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act
CWSRF Clean Water State Revolving Fund
CZARA: Coastal Zone Act Reauthorization Amendments
CZCS Coastal Zone Color Scanner
CZM Coastal Zone management (NOAA)
CZMA Coastal Zone Management Act (1972)
CZMP Coastal Zone Management Plan
CZMP Coastal Zone Management Program (NOAA)
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D
DAAC Distributed Active Archives Center
DAN Diver's Alert Network
DAO Data Assimilation Office
DARRP "Damage Assessment, Remediation, and Restoration Program (NOAA)"
DART Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis
DAWR Guam Division of Aquatic and Wildlife Resources
DBMS Database Management System
DCP Data Collection Platform
DCS Decompression Sickness
DDC Deck Decompression Chamber
DeepCRES Deep Coral Reef Ecosystems Studies
DEIS Draft Environmental Impact Statement
DEP Department of Environmental Protection
DEQ Division of Environmental Quality (CNMI)
DFG Derelict Fishing Gear
DFID Department for International Development (UK)
DGF Development Grant Facility (World Bank)
DGGE Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis
DHHS Department of Health and Human Services
DHS Department of Homeland Security
DHW Degree Heating Week
DLNR Department of Lands and Natural Resources (CNMI)
DMAC Plan Data Management and Communications Plan
DMPA Data Management Program Area
DMR Department of Marine Resources
DMWR Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources (American Samoa)
DNA Deoxyribonucleic Acid
DNER Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (PR)
DNR Department of Natural Resources
DO Diving Officer
DO Dissolved Oxygen
DOC Department of Commerce
DOC Dissolved Organic Carbon
DoD Department of Defense
DODS Distributed Oceanographic Data System
DoE Department of Environment
DOE Department of Energy
DOI U.S. Department of the Interior
DOM Dissolved Organic Matter
DOS U.S. Department of State
DOT U.S. Department of Transportation
DPV Diver Propulsion Vehicle
DSD Dark-Spots Disease
dsRNA Double Stranded RNA
DVD Digital Versatile Disc

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