| Acronym | Meaning |
| MRS | Materials Research Society |
| PIRL | Polyimide Release Layer |
| OMZ | Oxygen Min. Zone |
| MST | Microbial Source Tracking |
| FOCSY | Foldover-corrected Correlation Spectroscopy |
| OPEC | Organization Of Petroleum Exporting Countries |
| SSOP | Sequence Specific Oligonucleotide Probe |
| NRMRL | National Risk Management Research Laboratory |
| QUASIMEME | Quality Assurance Of Information For Marine Environmental Monitoring In Europe |
| PBCSBR | Porous Biomass Carrier Sequencing Batch Reactor |