| Acronym | Meaning |
| BLISS | Balloon-borne Laser In Situ Sensor |
| 3DWQM | Chesapeake Bay Three Dimensional Time Variable Water Quality Model |
| SNRNP | Small Nuclear Ribonucleoprotein |
| SDF | Stromal Cell-derived Factor |
| IEEM | Ion-electron Emission Microscopy |
| HMA | Hybrid Microelectronics Assembly |
| SCC-DVM | Self-consistent-charge-discrete-variational Method |
| IRAV | Intense Infrared Active Vibration |
| TSD | Treatment, Storage, Or Disposal |
| AAEM | Advanced Analytical Electron Microscope |