| Acronym | Meaning |
| CEES | Committee On Earth And Environment Sciences (US) |
| SPPA | Self-consistent Polarization Propagator Approximation |
| BFS | Beam Foil Spectroscopy |
| ACAR | Angular Correlation Of Annihilation Radiation |
| PPM | Parts Per Million |
| HFRP | Hybrid Fiber Reinforced Plastics |
| USCE | US Army Corps Of Engineers |
| BADGER | Bay Area Digital Geo-Resource |
| EMA | Electron Microprobe Analysis |
| SWNT | Single-wall Nanotube |