| TERM |
DEFINITION |
| ACEX |
Arctic Coring Expedition |
| ACH |
Automated Clearing House |
| AESTO |
Advanced Earth Science and Technology Organization (Japan) |
| AGI |
American Geophysical Institute |
| AGU |
American Geophysical Union |
| AMS |
American Meteorological Society |
| AOGS |
Asia-Oceana Geosciences Society |
| APC |
Advanced Piston Core |
| APCT |
APC Temperature Tool |
| API |
American Petroleum Institute |
| APL |
Ancillary Project Letter |
| APP |
Annual Program Plan |
| Argo |
Global profiling float project |
| ASLO |
American Society for Limnology and Oceanography |
| AUV |
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle |
| BATS |
Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study |
| BCR |
Bremen Core Repository |
| BGS |
British Geological Survey |
| BHA |
Bottom Hole Assembly |
| BoG |
Board of Governors |
| BP |
Before Present |
| BSR |
Bottom Simulator Reflector |
| CalCOFI |
California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations |
| Caro-COOPS |
Carolinas Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction System |
| CB-RMM |
Core barrel – retrievable memory module |
| CBOS |
Chesapeake Bay Observing System |
| CCD |
Carbonate Compensation Depth |
| CDEX |
Center for Deep Earth Exploration |
| CDP |
Complex Drilling Projects |
| CI |
Cyberinfrastructure |
| CLEANER |
Collaborative Large-scale Engineering Analysis Network for Environmental Research |
| CLIVAR |
CLImate VARiability and Predictability |
| CMCR |
Center for Advanced Marine Core Research (Kochi University) |
| CMO |
Central Management Office |
| CNRS |
Centre National de la Research Scientific (France) |
| CO |
Contracts Officer |
| COI |
Conflict of Interest |
| CoML |
Census of Marine Life
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| COMPS |
Coastal Ocean Monitoring and Prediction System (Univ. of South Florida) |
| CoOP |
Coastal Ocean Processes |
| CORE |
Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education |
| CORK |
Circulation Obviation Retrofit Kit |
| CORMP |
Coastal Ocean Research and Monitoring Project |
| COSEE |
Cooperative Ocean Science Excellence in Education |
| COTS |
Commercial Off The Shelf |
| CUSP |
Conference on U.S. Participation in IODP |
| DEOS |
Dynamics of Earth and Ocean Systems |
| DIS |
ICDP Drilling Information System |
| DLESE |
Digital Library for Earth System Education |
| DMAC |
Data Management and Communications |
