| Acronym | Meaning |
| DAESRA | Denver Area Employees Service And Recreation Association |
| AFD | Acid Fractionator Distillate |
| U MASS | University Of Massachusetts |
| UCSB | University Of California At Santa Barbara |
| TLLMES | The Institute For Integrative And Multidisciplinary Earth Studies |
| EXABYTE | Boulder-based Computer Company |
| FSSP | Forward Scattering Spectometer Probe |
| AFM | Atomic Force Microscopy |
| ALMS | Atomic Line Molecular Spectroscopy |
| PPMV | Parts Per Million By Volume |