Earth Materials and Health: Research Priorities for Earth Science and Public Health (2007)
Chapter: Appendix B: Acronyms and Abbreviations
Appendix B
Acronyms and Abbreviations
ABLES Adult Blood-Level Epidemiology and Surveillance program
AFIP Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
ATSDR Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
BPH benign prostatic hyperplasia
BTEX benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xzylene
CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CEC cation-exchange capacity
CHONSP carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, and phosphorous
COPD Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
DDT dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane
DOC Dissolved Organic Carbon
DoD Department of Defense
EDCs endocrine disrupting compounds
EID Ecology of Infectious Diseases
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
FIC Fogarty International Center
GIS Geographic Information System
GIScience Geographic Information Science
GUI Graphical user interface
HIPAA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
IGERT Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship
IRB Institutional Review Board
LOAEC Lowest Observable Adverse Effect Concentration
LOAEL Lowest Observable Adverse Effect Level
LPS lipopolysaccharide
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NCEH National Center for Environmental Health
NCHS National Center for Health Statistics
NCI National Cancer Institute
NHANES National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys
NHIS National Health Interview Survey
NIEHS National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
NIH National Institutes of Health
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOAEC No Observable Adverse Effect Concentration
NOAEL No Observable Adverse Effect Level
NRC National Research Council
NSF National Science Foundation
PCBs Polychlorinated biphenyls
PM particulate matter
PTSD post-traumatic stress disorder
RFP Request for Proposal
SBRP Superfund Basic Research Program
SCAMP Surface Chemistry Assemblage Model for Particles
SWAMP Sediment Water Algorithm for Metal Partitioning
TCE Trichloroethylene
TOMS Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer
TRI Toxics Release Inventory
UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
USGS United States Geological Survey
UV ultraviolet light
VOCs volatile organic compounds
