Polar Icebreakers in a Changing World: An Assessment of U.S. Needs (2007)
Chapter: Appendix E: Acronyms
E
Acronyms
ABS American Bureau of Shipping
ACIA Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
AICC Arctic Icebreaker Coordinating Committee
AIS automatic identification system
AMVER Automated Mutual-assistance Vessel Rescue
ARCDEV Arctic Demonstration and Exploratory Voyage
ASPPR Arctic Shipping Pollution Prevention Regulations
BPXA British Petroleum Exploration Alaska, Inc.,
CLCS Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf
DEW Distant Early Warning Line
DHS Department of Homeland Security
ECO Edison Chouest Offshore
EEZ Exclusive economic zone
FESCO Far East Shipping Company
FOS full operating staffing
FOSC federal on-scene coordinators
FY fiscal year
GISP 2 Greenland ice sheet project
Hp horsepower
IACS International Association of Classification Societies
ICSU International Council of Scientific Unions
IGY International Geophysical Year
IMO International Maritime Organization
IPY International Polar Year
ITASE International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expeditions
LEDET law enforcement detachment
LRIT Long Range Identification and Tracking
LTER Long Term Ecological Research
MARAD Maritime Administration
MDA Maritime domain awareness
MMS Minerals Management Service
MOA Memorandum of Agreement
MSC Military Sealift Command
NEWP Northeast Water Polynya project
Nmi nautical miles
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NPOESS National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System
NSC National Security Council
NSDM National Security Decision Memorandum
NSF National Science Foundation
NSTC National Science and Technology Council
NWP Northwest Passage
OAC external OPP Advisory Committee
OCS outer continental shelf
OMB Office of Management and Budget
OPP Office of Polar Programs
PAME Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment
PIRS Polar Icebreaker Requirements Study
PRV PALMER Replacement Vessel
SAR search and rescue
SHEBA Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean
SIDS sudden infant death syndrome
SLEP service life extension program
UNCLOS United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
UNOLS University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System
USAP United States Antarctic Program
USCG U.S. Coast Guard
USGS U.S. Geological Survey
VOSS Vessel of Opportunity Skimming System
VRAM vessel rehabilitation and modernization
VTS vessel traffic service
