| Acronym | Meaning |
| TARP | Technical Assistance Response Program |
| ARAMS | Advanced Regional Atmospheric Modeling System |
| BMS | Buried Metallic Sulfide |
| MLEE | Multilocus Enzyme Electrophoresis |
| ESDIAD | Electron Stimulated Desorption Of Ion Angular Distribution |
| ISM | Intersecting Spheres Model (for Electronic-structure Calcns.) |
| LAOS | Large Amplitude Oscillatory Shear |
| HIRDLS | High-Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder |
| LALIF | Laser Atomization/Laser Induced Fluorescence |
| SPFD | Simons-Parr-Finlan-Dunham (interat. Potential) |