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E
EA Environmental Assessment
EAC East Australian Current
EAF Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries
EAD Equivalent Air Depth
EANx Enriched Air Nitrox
EAPC Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council
EBM Ecosystem Based Management
EBS Emergency Breathing System
EC European Communities
ECC Eastern Caribbean Center
ECOHAB Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms
(NOAA/NSF)
EcoMar Marine Biodiversity of Hispaniola Island
ECOSUR El Colegio de La Frontera Sur
ECS EOSDIS Core System
EDAB Ecosystem Disruptive Algal Bloom
EDPO American Samoa Economic and Development Planning Office
EEA European Environment Agency
EEZ Exclusive Economic Zone
EFH Essential Fish Habitat
EGP Environmental Genetics Program
EIA Environmental impact assessment
EIMS Environmental Information Management System (EPA)
EIONET European Environment Information and Observation Network
EIS Environmental Information System
EIS Environmental Impact Statement
ELISA Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
EM Electromagnetic
EMAP Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program
EMC Environmental Modeling Center (NOAA)
EMR Electromagnetic Radiation
EMS Environmental Management System
EMS Electromagnetic Spectrum
EN Endangered
ENSO El Nino Southern Oscillation
EO Executive Order
EOD Ecosystems and Oceanography Division (NOAA)
EOS Earth Observation System/Satellite (NOAA)
EOSDIS EOS Data and Information System
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
EPHE Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
EPIRB Emergency Positioning Indicating Radio Beacon)
EPR Electron Paramagnetic Resonance; also Electron Spin Resonance
ERA Estuary Resoration Act
ERA Ecological Reserve Area
ERD Environmental Research Division (NOAA)
EROS Earth Resources Observation System
ERSST Data Set Extended Reconstruction of SST Data Set
ESA Ecological Society of America
ESA Endangered Species Act
ESA Environmental Site Assessment
ESA Environmentally Sensitive Area
ESADS Earth Science and Applications Data System
ESDIS Earth Science Data and Information System
ESI Environmental Sustainability Index
ESI Map Environmental Sensitivity Index Map
ESM Earth System Monitor (NOAA)
ERA Ecological Reserve Area
ERA Ecological Reserve Area
ESRI Environmental Systems Research Institute
ESRL Earth System Research Laboratory (NOAA)
EST Expressed Sequence Tag
ESU Evolutionarily Significant Unit
ETI Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification
ETM Enhanced Thematic mapper
ETMAES Expert Team on Marine Accident and Emergency Response
ETMSS Expert Team on Maritime Safety Systems
ETPS Eastern Tropical Pacific Seascape
ETSI Expert Team on Sea Ice
ETWS Expert Team on Wind Waves and Storm Surges
EU European Union
EUMETSAT European Organization for the Exploitation of
Meteorological Satellites
EUNIS European Universities Information System
EVAAM Etablissement pour la Valorisation des Activit's
Aquacoles et Maritimes
EVO-DEVO Evolutionary Developmental Biology
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F
FA Fluctuating Asymmetry
FACET "Fish, Algae and Coral Ecology Team"
FAD Fish Aggregation Device
FAO Food and Agriculture Organization (UN)
FAQ Frequently Asked Questions
FAS "Freely Associated States (Republic of Palau, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia)"
FASINEX Frontal Air-Sea Interaction Experiment
FAU Florida Atlantic University
FB Fishery Bulletin
FBNMS Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary
FBSAD Fishery Biology and Stock Assessment Division
FDA U.S. Food and Drug Administration
FDEP Florida Department of Environmental Protection
FEIS Final Environmental Impact Statement
FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency
FERC Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
FFS French Frigate Shoals
EIONET European Environment Information and Observation Network
FFWCC Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
FGBNMS Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary (NOAA)
FGDC Federal Geographic Data Committee
FIDI "Fishery Information, Data and Statistics Service (FAO)"
FIPS Federal Information Processing Standards
FISH Fluorescence in situ Hybridization
FIT Florida Institute of Technology
FIU Florida International University
FKNMS Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (NOAA)
FMA Fisheries Management Area
FMP Fishery Management Plan
FMRI Florida Marine Research Institute
FMSD Fisheries Monitoring and Socioeconomics Division
FNAI Florida Natural Areas Inventory
FNMOC Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center
FOAM Forecasting Ocean Assimilation Model
FONSI Finding of No Significant Impact
FoProBiM Fondation pour la Protection de la Biodiversite Marine cological Reserve Area
FOV Field of View
FRA Fisheries Replenishment Area
FSCHR Federal Symposium on Coastal Habitat Restoration
FSM Federated States of Micronesia
FSU Florida State University
FTP File Transfer Protocol
FWC Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FL)
FWRI Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FL)
FWS Fish and Wildlife Service (DOI)
FY Fiscal Year
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G
GAC Global Area Coverage
GB Gigabase Pairs
GBIF Global Biodiversity Information Facility
GBR Great Barrier Reef
GBRMP Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
GBRMPA Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
GBRRF Great Barrier Reef Research Foundation
GC/MS Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer
GCC Global Climate Change Program
GCC Global Carbon Cycle
GCDIS Global Change Data and Information Management System
GCMD Global Change Master Directory (NASA)
GCMP Guam Coastal Management Program
GCRA Global Coral Reef Alliance
GCRMN Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network
GDP Gross Domestic Product
GEF Global Environment Facility (established within the World Bank)
GELTSPAP Group of Experts on Long-Term Scientific Policy and Planning (IOC)
GEMIM Group of Experts on Marine Information Management (IODE)
GEMS Global Environmental Monitoring System
GEO Group on Earth Observations
GEO geosynchronous orbit
GEOHAB Global Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms
GEONETCast A global network of satellite based data dissemination systems providing environmental data to a world-wide user community.
GEOSECS Geochemical Ocean Section Study
GEOSS Global Environment Observation System of Systems
GEPA Guam's Environmental Protection Agency
GESAMP Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection
GFDL Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (NOAA)
GFP Green Fluorescent Protein
GHG Green House Gas
GHRSST-PP GODAE High Resolution SST Pilot Project
GIF Graphics Interchange Format
GIPME Global Investigation of Pollution in the Marine Environment (IOC Scientific Committee)
GIS Geographical Information System; Global Information System
GISD Global Invasive Species Database
GISI Global Invasive Species Initiative
GISP Global Invasive Species Programme
GIWA Global International Waters Assessment
GLOBEC Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics Research Program
GLOS Global Sea Level Observing System
GMAO Global Modeling and Assimilation Office
GMD Global Monitoring Division (NOAA)
GMFMC Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council
GMI Global Marine Initiative
GMT Greenwich Mean Time (Zulu or Coordinated Universal Time)
GNDB Geographic Names Database
GNET Global Network of Environment and Technology
GNIS Geographic Names Information System
GNP Gross National Product
GNS GEOnet Names Server
GODAE Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment
GODAR Project Global Oceanographic Data Archaeology and Rescue Project (NOAA)
GODC Ghana Oceanographic Data Centre
GOES Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites
GOOS Global Ocean Observing System
GOOS-IOS GOOS Initial Observing System
GOS Global Observing System
GOSTA Global Ocean Surface Temperature Atlas
GPS Global Positioning System
GR Growth Rate
GRID Global Resource Information Database
GSA Geological Society of America
GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center
GSN Global Seismic Network
GTS Global Telecommunications System
GTSPP Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Program (also Global Temperature-Salinity Pilot Project)
GU Guam
GUI Graphical User Interface
GWA Guam Waterworks Authority
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H
HAAP High-Altitude Aerial Photograph
HAB Harmful Algal Bloom
HabITS Habitat Information Tracking System
HABSOS Harmful Algal Blooms Observing System
HACCP Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point
HAPC Habitat Area of Particular Concern
HAZMAT Hazardous Materials
HBOI Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution
HC Habitat Conservation
HCFC Hydrochlorofluorocarbon
HCRI Hawaii Coral Reef Initiative
HCRI-RP Hawaii Coral Reef Initiative-Research Program
HDAR Hawai`i Division of Aquatic Resources
HDF Hierarchical Data Format
HDF-SDS Hierarchical Data Format -Scientific Data Set
HHS Department of Health and Human Services
HIHWNMS Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine sanctuary (NOAA)
HIMB Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology (UHI)
HIWG Hawaii Interagency Coral Reef Mitigation Working Group
HL Hydrology Laboratory (NOAA)
HML Hollings Marine Laboratory (NOAA)
HMT Hybrid Mapping Tool
Ho Null Hypothesis
HOST Hawai?i Ocean Safety Team
HOTS Hawaii Ocean Time Series
HPCC High Performance Computing and Communications
HRI Harte Research Institute
HRPT High Resolution Picture Transmission
HSL Hazardous Substance List
HSPs Heat Shock Proteins
HURL Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory
HYCOM Atlantic HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model
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I
IABIN Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network Harmful Algal Bloom
IABO International Association of Biological Oceanography Habitat Information Tracking System
IACGEC Inter-Agency Committee on Global Environmental Change
IAMSLIC International Association of Aquatic & Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers
IAPSO International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans
ICA International Council on Archives
ICAM Integrated Coastal Area Management
ICBN International Code of Botanical Nomenclature
ICCAT International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas
ICES International Council for the Exploration of the Seas
ICLARM International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (now WorldFish Centre)
ICM Integrated Coastal Management (also IC Zone M and IC Area M)
ICOLL Intermittently Closed and Open Lakes and Lagoon
ICON Integrated Coral Observing Network
ICOSRMI Interagency Committee on Ocean Science and Resource Management Integration
ICRAN International Coral Reef Action Network
ICRI International Coral Reef Initiative
ICRIN HIWG International Coral Reef Information Network
ICRMN Indian Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network
ICS Incident Command System
ICSU International Council of Scientific Unions
ICZM Integrated Coastal Zone Management
ICZN "International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature; sometimes used for the 'International Code of Zoological Nomenclature' "
IDL Interactive Data Language
IdO Instituto de Oceanologia (Cuba)
IDOE International Decade of Ocean Exploration
IEEE Institute for Electronics and Electrical Engineering
IEF Isoelectric Focusing
IFISH International Fishing Industry Safety & Health
IFLA International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
IFRECOR French Coral Reef Initiative
IFREMER Institut Francais de Recherche pour l?Exploitation de la Mer
IGBP International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (ICSU)
IGBP-DIS International Geosphere-Biosphere Program Data and Information System
IGO Intergovernmental Organization
IGOS Integrated Global Observing Strategy
IGOSS Integrated Global Ocean Services System
IIOE International Indian Ocean Expedition
IGU International Geophysical Union
IMA Trinidad and Tobago Institute of Marine Affairs
IMarEST "Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (SIO)"
IMAU Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Resesarch (The Netherlands)
IMN Integrated Monitoring Network (NOAA)
IMO International Maritime Organization
IMPAC International Marine Project Activities Center
IMS Information Management System
IMSTI Institute of Marine Scientific and Technological Information
INCOIS Indian National Center for Ocean Information Service
INE Instituto Nacional de Ecologia
INISTE International Network for Information in Science and Technology Education
INODC Indian National Oceanographic Data Center
INPARQUES Venezuelan national parks body
INVEMAR Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (Colombia)
IO Instant Ocean
IOBC Indian Ocean Biological Centre
IOBC International Organization for Biological Control of Noxious Animals and Plants
IOBP International Organization of Plant Biosystematists
IOC Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
IOCARIBE Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission - Sub-Commission for the Caribbean and Adjacent Reg
IOCARIBE-GOOS Caribbean GOOS
IODE International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange
IOI International Ocean Institute
ION International Ocean Network
INE Instituto Nacional de EcologĦa
IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
IPHAB Intergovernmental Panel on Harmful Algal Blooms
IPIECA International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association
IPO Integrated Program Office
IR InfraRed
IRF Island Resources Foundation
IRL Indian River Lagoon
ISEM International Society for Ecological Modelling
ISP Internet Service Provider
ISRS International Society for Reef Studies
ISSG Invasive Species Specialist Group
IT Information Technology
ITCZ Intertropical Convergence Zone
ITIS Integrated Taxonomic Information System
ITMEMS International Tropical Marine Ecosystems Management Symposium
ITQ Individual Transferable Quota
ITS Internal Transcribed Spacer
IUBS International Union of Biological Sciences
IUCN World Conservation Union
IUU Fishing "Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported (fishing) "
IW:LEARN International Waters Learning Exchange and Resource Network
IWC International Whaling Commission
IWC International Wildlife Coalition
IWGDMGC Interagency Working Group on Data Management for Global Change
IWC International Whaling Commission
IWM International Waters Management
IYO International Year of the Oceans
IYOR International Year of the Reef
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J
JCOMM Joint Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology
JCUNQ James Cook University of North Queensland
JGOFS Joint Global Ocean Flux Study
JIMAR Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research (UHI)
JIMO Joint Institute for Marine Observations (NOAA)
JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group
JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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K
KB Kilobase
KEYS Keep Your Eyes on the Reef Program
KM Knowledge Management
KWS Kenya Wildlife Service

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