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P
PacIOOS Pacific Islands Integrated Ocean Observing System
PaCOOS Pacific Coastal Ocean Observing System
PACS Pan American Climate Studies
PADI Professional Association of Diving Instructors
PAGDSS The Protected Area Gap Decision Support System
PAH Polycylic Aromatic Hydrocarbon
PAHO Pan American Health Organization
PAM Pulse Amplitude Modulation
PAR Photosynthetically Active Radiation
PATOMAC Programa de Aprendizaje Tecnico en mediciones del Medio Ambiente Costero para America Latina y el Caribe
PCB polychlorinated biphenyl
PCE Perchloroetene
PCR Polymerase Chain Reaction
PCRF Palau Coral Reef Foundation
PCRF Planetary Coral Reef Foundation
PCS Palau Conservation Society
PDC Personal Dive Computer
PEGASUS An ocean current profiling system (not an acronym)
PDF Portable Document Format
PEET Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy
PEI Princeton Environmental Institute
PEMSEA Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia
PERSGA Regional Organization for the Conservation of the Environment of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden
PFEG Pacific Fisheries Environmental Group (NOAA)
PFEL Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory (NOAA)
PI Principal Investigator
PI GOOS Pacific Island GOOS
PIBHMC Pacific Islands Benthic Habitat Mapping Center (NOAA/SOEST)
PICRC Palau International Coral Reef Center
PIER Pfleger Institute of Environmental Research
PIFSC Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (NOAA)
PIMPAC Pacific Islands Marine Protected Area Community (NOAA)
PIMRIS Pacific Islands Marine Resources Information System
PIP Phoenix Islands Protected Area
PIR Pacific Islands Region (NOAA)
PIRO Pacfic Islands Regional Office (NOAA)
PIT Passive Integrated Transponder
PMUS Pelagic Management Unit Species
PNG Papua-New Guinea
PO.DAAC NASA JPL/Caltech Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center
POES Polar Operational Environmental Satellite (NOAA)
POSIDIN Portal for Oceanographic Services for IOOS Data and information
PPI Program Planning and Integration (NOAA)
PPM Parts per Million
PPT Parts per Thousand
PR Protected Resources
ESA Environmentally Sensitive Area
PR Puerto Rico
PRDENR Puerto Rico Department of the Environment and Natural Resources
PRIAs Pacific Remote Island Areas
PSA Phycological Society of America
PSD Protected Species Division (NOAA)
PSI Pounds per Square Inch
PSP Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning
PSSA Particularly Sensitive Seas Area
PSU Practical Salinity Units
PUFA Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid
PVC Polyvinyl chloride
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Q
QA Quality Assurance
QC Quality Control
QFR Questions for the Record (U.S. Congress)
QPCR Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction
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R
R&D Research and Development
R/S Remote Sensing
RA Regional Association
RACE Rapid Amplification of cDNA Ends
RACE Restoration and Assessment of Coral Ecosystems
RADAR Radio Detection and Ranging
RAE Restore America's Estuaries
RAMP Reef Assessment and Mapping Program
RAMSAR International Convention on Wetlands
RANWR Rose Atoll National Wildlife Refuge
RAP Rapid Assessment Protocol
RASMAS University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
RBD Red-Band Disease
RCAP Rural Community Assistance Program
RCCL Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines
RCOOS Regional Coastal Ocean Observing Systems (NOAA)
RDAC Regional Data Assembly Centres
RDBMS Relational database management system
REA Rapid Ecological Assessment
REEF Reef Environmental Education Foundation
REN Reef Education Network
RF Radio Frequency
RFLP Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism
RFMO Regional Fisheries Management Organization
RFP Request for Proposal
RG Repetitive Group
RNA Research Natural Areas
RNA Ribonucleic acid
RNAi RNA-Mediated Interference
RNODC Responsible National Oceanographic Data Center
RNT Residual Nitrogen Time
ROFS Regional Ocean Forecast System (NOAA)
ROPME Regional Organization for the Protection of the Marine Environment
ROV Remotely Operated Vehicle
RPA Reserve Preservation Area
RR Recreational Reserve
rRNA Ribosomal RNA
RS Reserve Specials
RSMAS Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science
RTD Real-Time Data
RTN Rapid Tissue Necrosis
S&T Science and technology
S/N Signal to Noise Ratio
SAA Satellite Active Archive
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S
S2O2 Sargasso Sea Ocean Observatory
SABSOON South Atlantic Bight Synoptic Offshore Observational network
SAC Scientific Advisory Committee
SAC Special Areas of Conservation
SAC Special Analysis Center
SAC Scientific Advisory Council
SACC South Atlantic Climate Change Consortium
SACEP South Asia Cooperative Environment Program
SADDS Satellite Archive Data Delivery System
SAFMC South Atlantic Fishery Management Council
SAIC Science Applications International Corporation
SAIDS Satellite Archive Image Delivery System
SAMOS Shipboard Automated Meteorological and Oceanographic System (NOAA)
SAMP Special Area Management Plan
SAP Scientific Advisory Panel
SAP Strategic Action Program
SAR Synthetic Aperture Radar
SAREC SIDA Department for Research Cooperation
SARSAT Search And Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking
SAT Surface Air Temperature
SAV Submerged Aquatic Vegetation
SB Sand Bed
SBA Satellite Bleaching Alert
SBSTTA "Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical, and Technological Advice"
SCC Subtropical Counter Current
SCG Services Coordination Group
SCIBP Special Committee for the International Biological Program
SCOR Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research
SCRIPPS Scripps Institution of Oceanography
SCUBA Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
SD Standard Deviation
SDS Scientific Data Stewardship
SEAFDEC South-East Asian Fisheries Development Center
SEAFIS South-East Asian Fisheries Information System
SEAKEYS Sustained Ecological Research Related to Management of the Florida Keys Seascape (NOAA)
SEAMAP Scientific Exploration and Mapping Program (NASA)
SEAMAP Southeastern Area Monitoring and Assessment Program (SAFMC)
SEA Shipboard Environmental Data Acquisition System
SEASAT Sea Satellite
SeaWiFs Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor
SEC South Equatorial Current
SEDAR Southeast Data assessment and Review
SEDU-UWI Sustainable Economic Development Unit of the University of West Indies
SEFCRI Southeast Florida Coral Reef initiative
SEFSC Southeast Fisheries Science Center (NOAA)
SEM Scanning Electron Micrograph
SER Southeast Region
SERC Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
SEYMEMP Seychelles Marine Ecosystem Management Project
SFC CESU South Florida and Caribbean Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit
SFERPM "South Florida Ecosystem Restoration, Prediction, and Modeling Program"
SFSGeo South Florida Sportfishing Geodatabase
SG Specific Gravity
SGP Small Grants Program (GEF)
SHARQ Submersible Habitat for Analyzing Reef Quality
SHC Sustain Healthy Coasts (NOAA)
SHOALS Scanning Hydrographic Operational Airborne Lidar Survey
SI Surface Interval
SI Smithsonian Institution
SICB Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology
SIDA Swedish International Development Agency
SIDS Small Island Developing States
SIO Scripps Institution of Oceanography
siRNA Short Interfering RNA
SIT Surface Interval Time
SLE St. Lucie Estuary
SMB Surface Marker Buoy
SMEE Smithsonian Marine Ecosystems Exhibit
SMI Smithsonian Institution
SMMA Soufriere Marine Management Area (St. Lucia)
SMSFP Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce
SNP Single Nucleotide Polymorphism
SO Southern Oscillation
SocMon Global Socioeconomic Monitoring Initiative for Coastal Management (NOAA)
SocMon SEA Southeast Asia Socioeconomic Monitoring Network
SOEST School of Ocean Earth Science and Technology (UHI)
SOG Satellite Oceanography Group
SOI Southern Oscillation Index
SOI Statement of Intent
SONAR Sound Navigation and Ranging
SOSUS Sound Surveillance System
SOTR State of the Reefs Report (NOAA)
SP State Park
SPAW Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife (Protocol of Cartagena Convention)
SPC Secretariat of the Pacific Community
SPO Special Projects Office (NOAA/NOS)
SPO Strategic Planning Office (NOAA)
SPO South Pole Observatory (NOAA)
SPREP South Pacific Regional Environment Program
SQL Structured Query Language
SR Synchronizing Resources
SR Scanning Radiometer
SRI Shark Research Institute
SRTC Southeastern Regional Taxonomic Center
SRV Submerged Rooted Vegetation
SSB Shallow Sand Bed
SSC Scientific Steering Committee
SST Sea Surface Temperature
STN Slow Tissue Necrosis
STR Short Tandem Repeat
STRI Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (Panama) At
SUT Society for Underwater Technology
SVP Drifting Buoy Surface Velocity Profiling Drifting Buoy
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T
TAMU Texas A&M University
TAO Tropical Atmosphere Ocean
TBT Total Bottom Time
TCE Trichloroethene
TCS The Crustacean Society
TDT Total Dive Time
TED Turtle Excluder Device
TER Tortugas Ecological Reserve
TESS Threatened and Endangered Species System
TIFF Tag Image File Format
TM Thematic Mapper
TNC The Nature Conservancy
TNT Total Nitrogen Time
TOAD Towed Optical Assessment Device
TOC Total Organic Carbon
TOC The Ocean Conservancy
TOD Theoretical Ocean Depth
TOGA Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere Program
TOGA-TAO Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere Program/Tropical Atmosphere Ocean project (NOAA)
TR Territorial Reserve
TRMM Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission
tRNA Transfer RNA
T-S Diagram Temperature-Salinity Diagram
TSA Thermal Stress Anomaly
TSN Taxonomic Serial Number (IT IS)
TTX Tetradotoxin
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U
U.S. United States
UCAR University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
UCR University of Costa Rica
UFA United Fishing Agency
UGF Under Gravel Filter
UHF Ultra High Frequency
UHI University of Hawaii
UK United Kingdom
ULF Ultra Low Frequency
UM University of Miami
UN United Nations
UNAM Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
UNCED United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
UNCLOS United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
UNCW University of North Carolina - Wilmington
UNDP United Nations Development Program
UNEP United Nations Environment Program
UNEP-CRU United Nations Environment Program- Coral Reef Unit
UNEP-RCU United Nations Environment Programme Regional Coordinating Unit
UNESCO "United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization "
UNF United Nations Foundation
UNFCCC United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
UNGA United Nations General Assembly
UNICPOLOS United Nations Open-ended Informal Consultative Processes on Oceans and the Law of the Sea
UNISIST United Nations International Scientific Information System; World Scientific Information System
UNOLS University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System
UOG University of Guam
UOGML University of Guam Marine Laboratory
UPR University of Puerto Rico
UPRM Puerto Rico/Mayaguez
URL Universal Resource Locator
USACE U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
USAID U.S. Agency for International Development
USCG U.S. Coast Guard
USCRTF U.S. Coral Reef task force
USDA U.S. Department of Agriculture
USF University of South Florida
USFS U.S. Forest Service
USFWS U.S. Fish and Wildlife service
USGS U.S. Geological Survey
USMCC U.S. Mission Control Center
USVI U.S. Virgin Islands
UTM Universal Transverse Mercator
UUV Unmanned Underwater Vehicle
UV Ultraviolet
UVI University of the Virgin Islands
UVR Ultraviolet Radiation; Ultraviolet radiometer
UWI University of the West Indies
UWICED University of West Indies Center for Environment and Development
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V
VGE Venous Gas Embolism
VHF Very High Frequency
VHRR Very High Resolution Radiometer
VI Vegetation Index
VICRNM Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument
VIIRS Visible/Infrared Imager/Radiometer Suite
VIS Visible Band
VLF Very Low Frequency
VMEs Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems
VOS Volunteer Observing Ships
VU Vulnerable
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W
WB World Bank
WBD White-Band Disease
WCMC World Conservation Monitoring Center
WCPA World Commission on Protected areas
WCR Wider Caribbean Region
WCRP World Climate Research Program
WCS Wildlife Conservation Society
WDC World Data Center
WDC-A Oceanography World Data Center-A for Oceanography (Washington, D.C.)
WDCS Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society
WFOV Wide Field of View
WG Working Group
WHO World Health Organization
WHOI Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
WHPO WOCE Hydrographic Program Office
WHS World Health Organization
WHYCOS World Hydrological Cycle Observing System
WIDECAST Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Recovery Team and Conservation Network
WIO Western Indian Ocean
WMO World Meteorological Organization
WOA World Ocean Atlas (NOAA)
WDC World Data Center
WOCE World Ocean Circulation Experiment
WOD World Ocean Database (NOAA)
WP White Plague
WPRFMC Western Pacific Regional Management Council
WRAS Web Reef Advisory System
WRI World Resources Institute
WRP Wetlands Reserve Program
WSIS World Summit on the Information Society
WSSD World Summit on Sustainable Development
WW2BW White Water to Blue Water Initiative
WWF World Wildlife Fund
WWW World Weather Watch
WWW World Wide Web
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X
XBT Expendable Bathythermograph
XCP Expendable Current Profiler
XCTD "Expendable Conductivity, Temperature, Depth Profiler"
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Y
YAC Yeast Artificial Chromosome
YBD Yellow-Band Disease; Yellow-Blotch Disease
YOY Young-of-the-Year

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