| Acronym | Meaning |
| GLAD | Great Lakes Atmospheric Deposition |
| AFBS | Anaerobic Fluidized Bed Systems |
| ROV | Remotely Operated Vehicle |
| LID | Laser Implant-deposition |
| QD-MBPT | Quasi-degenerate Many-body Perturbation Theory |
| EUROTRAC | European Experiment Of Transport And Transformation Of Environmentally Relevant Trace Constituents In The Troposphere Over Eur |
| OPPT | Office Of Pollution Prevention And Toxics (US EPA) |
| DSLFS | Doppler-shift Laser Fluorescence Spectroscopy |
| CIDR | Controlled-internal Drug Release |
| LSE | Liquid/solid Extraction |