| Acronym | Meaning |
| LOIS | Land-Ocean Interaction Study |
| VBSCF | Valence Bond Self-consistent Field |
| RHFO | Relativistic Hartree-Fock One-channel (for Scattering) |
| PWG SCF | Plane-wave Gaussian Self-consistent Field Method |
| CAI | Compression After Impact |
| MERT | Microelectrical Resistance Tomography |
| TDPAC | Time Differential Perturbed Angular Correlation |
| PIS | Penning Ionization Spectroscopy |
| TDP | Total Dissolved Phosphorus |
| HPCA | Hierarchical Principal Component Analysis |