Exploration of Antarctic Subglacial Aquatic Environments: Environmental and Scientific Stewardship (2007)
Chapter: C List of Acronyms
C
List of Acronyms
AARI Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute
ANDRILL Antarctic Geological Drilling
AO Acridine Orange
APC Advanced Piston Corer
ASMA Antarctic Specially Managed Area
ASPA Antarctic Specially Protected Area
ATCM Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting
ATLO Assembly Test and Launch
AUV Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
AWI Alfred Wegener Institute
BAS British Antarctic Survey
BEQ Biological Energy Quantum
CCAMLR Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Living Marine Resources
CEE Comprehensive Environmental Evaluation
CEP Committee for Environmental Protection
COMNAP Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs
COSPAR International Committee on Space Research
CRREL Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
CTDI Coiled-Tube Drilling for Ice
DAPI 4′,6-Diamidino-2-phenylindole
DEM Digital Elevation Model
DGGE Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis
DML Dronning Maud Land
DOC Dissolved Organic Carbon
DSDP Deep Sea Drilling Program
EAIS East Antarctic Ice Sheet
EPICA European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica
FISH Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization
FOSA Heptadecafluorooctane Sulfonamide
GC-MS Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectroscopy
GISP Greenland Ice Sheet Project
GRIP Greenland Ice Core Project
HCFC Hydrochlorofluorocarbon
ICSU International Council for Science
IEE Initial Environmental Evaluation
IGY International Geophysical Year
IODP Integrated Ocean Drilling Program
IPEV French Polar Institute
IPY International Polar Year
LC-MS Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectroscopy
ME Maintenance Energy
MPa Megapascal
NAC NASA Advisory Council
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NDELA Nitrosodiethanolamine
NGRIP North Greenland Ice Core Project
NIPR National Institute of Polar Research
NPOC Non-purgeable Organic Carbon
NPR NASA Procedural Requirement
NRC National Research Council
NSF National Science Foundation
NTU Nephelometric Turbidity Unit
ODP Ocean Drilling Program
OPP Office of Polar Programs
PFT Perfluorocarbon Tracer
PNRA National Research Program in Antarctica
POC Particulate Organic Carbon
PP Planetary Protection
PPP Panel on Planetary Protection
PVC Polyvinyl Chloride
RCB Rotary Core Barrel
RES Radio-Echo Sounding
ROS Reactive Oxygen Species
ROV Remotely Operated Vehicle
SALE Subglacial Antarctic Lake Exploration
SALEGOS Subglacial Antarctic Lake Exploration Group of Specialists
SAR Synthetic Aperture Radar
SCAR Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
SRP Scientific Research Plan
SSB Space Studies Board
TDS Total Dissolved Solids
T-RFLP Terminal Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism
UNITED Unified Team for Exploration and Discovery
U.S. SALE U.S. Subglacial Lake Environments
WAIS West Antarctic Ice Sheet
