Appendix G 



Acronyms and Abbreviations 



AEM — Airborne Electromagnetic Bathymetry 1ST 



AOML — Atlantic Oceanographic and 



Meteorological Laboratories ITA 



BOF — Basic Oxygen Furnace JOI 



BOM —U.S. Bureau of Mines LDGO 



BPL — Bone Phosphate of Lime 



BS^ — Bathymetric Swath Survey System LOS 



CATS — Center for Applied Isotope Studies LOSC 



CALCOFI — California Cooperative Fisheries MB 



Investigations MCC 



CDF —Common Depth Point MESA 



COE — U.S. Army Corps of Engineers MGF 



CSO —Coastal States Organization MIPS 



CZMA — Coastal Zone Management Act MM 



DCS —Digital Grain Size MMS 



DMRP — Dredged Material Research Program MOU 



DOD —U.S. Department of Defense MSR 



DOE —U.S. Department of Energy NAS 



DOI —U.S. Department of the Interior NASA 



DOMES — Deep Ocean Mining Environmental 



Study NACOA 

 DSHMRA — Deep Seabed Hard Minerals Resources 



Act NCAR 

 DSL — Deep Submergence Laboratory 



EEZ — Exclusive Economic Zone NEPA 



EIS — Environmental Impact Statement NESDIS 



EPA — U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 



ERM —Exact Repeat Mission NGDC 



FOB —Free on Board NMFS 



FWS —U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service NMPIS 



GEODAS — Geophysical Data System 



GEOSAT —U.S. Navy Geodetic SateUite NOAA 

 GI — General Instrument Corp. 



GGB — Gridded Global Bathymetry NOAC 



GLORIA — Geological Long Range Inclined Asdic 



GPS —Global Positioning System NODC 



HEBBLE —High Energy Benthic Boundary Layer NOMES 



Experiment 



HIG —Hawaii Institute of Geophysics NORDA 



HS — Hydrographic Survey 



ICES — International Council for Exploration NOS 



of the Seas NOS/HS 

 IDOE — International Decade of Ocean 



Exploration NOS/MB 

 IGY — International Geophysical Year 



lOS — Institute of Oceanographic Sciences NRC 



IP —Induced Polarization NRL 



ICES — International Council for the NSF 



Explorations of the Seas NSI 



— International Submarine Technology, 



Ltd. 

 — International Trade Administration 

 — Joint Oceanographic Institutions 

 — Lamont-Doherty Geological 



Observatory 

 — Law of the Sea 

 — Law of the Sea Convention 

 — Marine Boundary Data 

 — Marine Core Curator 

 — Marine Ecosystems Analysis Project 

 — Miscellaneous Geology Files 

 — Mini-Image Processing System 

 — Marine Mineral Data 

 — Minerals Management Service 

 — Memorandum of Understanding 

 — Marine Seismic Reflection 

 — National Academy of Science 

 — National Aeronautics and Space 



Administration 

 — National Advisory Committee on 



Oceans and Atmosphere 

 — National Center for Atmospheric 



Research 

 — National Environmental Policy Act 

 — National Environmental Satellite Data 



and Information Service 

 — National Geophysical Data Center 

 — National Marine Fisheries Service 

 — National Marine Pollution Information 



System 

 — National Oceanic and Atmospheric 



Administration 

 — National Operations Security Advisory 



Committee 

 — National Oceanographic Data Center 

 — New England Offshore Mining 



Environmental Study 

 — Naval Ocean Research and 



Development Activity 

 — National Ocean Survey 

 — National Ocean Survey Hydrographic 



Surveys 

 — National Ocean Survey Multibeam 



EEZ Bathymetry 

 — National Research Council 

 — Naval Research Laboratory 

 — National Science Foundation 

 — NASA Science Internet 



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