519 



APPENDIX II 



ITT 



183 



ONR 



ONT 



OSB 



OSC 



OSRS 



PI 



P.O. 



POM 



RIDGE 



ROV 



R/V 



SAR 



SCAT 



SeaWiFS 



SIO 



TOGA 

 TOPEX/Poseidon 



UH 

 UNOLS 



USCG 



USGS 



UW 



VOS 



WHO! 



WOCE 



Office of Naval Research 



Office of Naval Technology 



Ocean Studies Board 



Orbital Sciences Corporation 



Ocean Science Research Support (NSF) 



principal investigator 



Physical oceanography 



particulate organic material 



Ridge Inter-Disciplinary Global Experiment 



remotely operated vehicle 



research vessel 



synthetic aperture radar 



Scatterometer 



Sea-viewing Wide Field Sensor; an ocean 



color satellite instrument 

 Scripps Institution of Oceanography 

 Tropical Ocean-Global Atmosphere program 

 Joint NASA/French Space Agency venture to 



measure the surface topography of the 



ocean with great precision 

 University of Hawaii 

 University-National Oceanographic 



Laboratory System 

 U.S. Coast Guard 

 U.S. Geological Survey (DOI) 

 University of Washington 

 volunteer observing ships 

 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 

 World Ocean Circulation Experiment 



