| Acronym | Meaning |
| PF | Protective Factor |
| CDOC | Colored Dissolved Organic Carbon |
| ASMV | Australian Student Mineral Venture |
| CC-DQMC | Clamped-coordinate Diffusion Quantum Monte Carlo |
| VHMS | Volcanic-hosted Massive Sulfide |
| BNF | Biological Nitrogen Fixation |
| AFBBR | Anaerobic Fluidized Bed Biofilm Reactor |
| IRMPA | Infrared Multiphoton Absorption |
| MCP2P | Multiconfigurational Particle-particle Propagator |
| FLIR | Forward-looking Infrared |