| Acronym | Meaning |
| NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement |
| IBSCA | Ion Beam Spectrochemical Analysis |
| ROG | Reactive Organic Gas |
| MCS | Multiple Cloning Site |
| APE | Aerosol Photoemission |
| ISCCP | International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project |
| LDPEX | Cross-linked |
| PNA | Polynuclear Aromatic Compound(s) |
| SBIG | Subject-based Information Gateway |
| DRM | Depositional Remanent Magnetization |