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Acronyms and Abbreviations 



ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency 



CalCOFI California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations 



CIA Centi-al Intelligence Agency 



CNO Chief of Naval Operations 



CORE Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education 



DOE Department of Energy 



EJIP Eddy Joint Industry Project 



EPA Environmental Protection Agency 



ETF Environmental Task Force 



GOOS Global Ocean Observing System 



IDBMS Integrated Data Base Management System 



IGOSS Integrated Global Ocean Services System 



INTO Institute for Naval Oceanography 



loM Institute of Medicine 



lUSS Integrated Undersea Surveillance System 



jfIC Joint Ice Center 



LTER Long Term Ecosystem Research 



MEDEA Measurement of Earth Data for Enviroiunental Analysis 



MMS Minerals Management Service 



NAE National Academy of Engineering 



NAS National Academy of Sciences 



NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration 



NCSS National Council for the Social Studies 



NESDIS National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information SerWce 



NIC National Ice Center 



NMEA National Marine Educators Association 



NMFS National Marine Fisheries Service 



NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 



NOLC National Ocean Leadership Council 



NODC National Oceanographic Data Center 



NORDA Naval Oceanographic Research and Development Activity 



NOS National Ocean Service 



NRC National Research Council 



NRL Naval Research Laboratory 



NSF National Science Foundation 



NSTA National Science Teachers Association 



OMB Office of Management and Budget 



ONR Office of Naval Research 



OSTP Office of Science and Technology Policy 



ROV Remotely Operated Vehicle 



S&T Science and Technology 



SAR Synthetic Aperture Radar 



TOGA Tropical Ocean - Global Atmosphere 



UCAR University Corporation for Atmospheric Research 



UNOLS University - National Oceanographic Laboratory System 



USACoE United States Army Corps of Engineers 



USCG United States Coast Guard 



USGS United States Geological Survey 



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