| Acronym | Meaning |
| SMCL | Secondary Maximum Contaminant Level |
| CBM | Constant Boiling Mixture |
| ADCP | Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler |
| BSSRP | Basic Safety Standards For Radiation Protection |
| MPCA | Multiway Principal Component Analysis |
| POC | Particulate Organic Carbon |
| AGP | Antisymmetrized Geminal Power (wave Function) |
| DOMES | Deep Ocean Mining Environmental Study |
| OCT | Optical Current Transducer |
| LASP | Laboratory For Atmospheric And Space Physics |