| Acronym | Meaning |
| TPA | Two-photon Absorption |
| PICA | Picosecond Imaging Circuit Analysis |
| SOP | Standard Operating Procedure |
| SFG | Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy |
| SMBC | Soil Microbial Biomass Carbon |
| ISPCR | In Situ Polymerase Chain Reaction |
| GDF | Generalized Density-functional (theory) |
| CHAART | Center For Health Applications Of Aerospace-Related Technologies |
| CRS | Coordinate-representation Sudden (decoupling Method For Mol. Inelastic Collisions) |
| CBD | Citrate-bicarbonate-dithionite (sample Treatment In Soil Analysis) |