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DOM dissolved organic material 



DON dissolved organic nitrogen 



DSDP Deep Sea Drilling Project 



EEZ Exclusive Economic Zone 



EOS Earth Observing System 



EOSDIS EOS Data and Information System 



EPA Environmental Protection Agency 



ERS-1 Earth Resources Satellite- 1 (European Space 



Agency) 



ESA European Space Agency 



FCCSET Federal Coordinating Council for Science, 



Engineering, and Technology 



FLIP Floating Instrument Platform 



FY Fiscal Year 



GLOBEC Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics 



GNP gross national product 



GOOS global ocean observing system 



IR Infrared radiometer 



JGOFS Joint Global Ocean Flux Study 



JOI Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc. 



JOIDES Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep 



Earth Sampling 



M.B, Marine biology 



M.C. Marine chemistry 



MG and G Marine geology and geophysics 



MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology 



MMS Minerals Management Service (DOI) 



MR Microwave radiometer 



NADW North Atlantic Deep Water 



NASA National Aeronautics and Space 



Administration 



NASDA Japanese space agency 



NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric 



Administration 



NODC National Oceanographic Data Center 



NRC National Research Council 



NRL Naval Research Laboratory 



NSF National Science Foundation 



OCE Division of Ocean Sciences (NSF) 



OCF Oceanographic Centers and Facilities (NSF) 



OCS outer continental shelf 



ODP Ocean Drilling Program 



O.E. Ocean engineering 



