| Acronym | Meaning |
| MBBR | Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor |
| PC | Personal Computer |
| CSITE | Consortium For Research On Enhancing Carbon Sequestration In Terrestrial Ecosystems |
| BLS | Brillouin Light Scattering |
| EID | Electron Impact Desorption |
| IWG | International Working Group |
| COI | Constituents Of Interest |
| DWPL | Drinking Water Priority List |
| CLU-IN | Clean-Up Information Bulletin Board System (formerly OSWER-BBS) |
| FOPIM | First Order Perturbation Iteration Method |