Building Ocean Science Partnerships: The United States and Mexico Working Together (1999)

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APPENDIX C
Definition of Acronyms

AGU—

American Geophysical Union

AMC—

Academia Mexicana de Ciencias

ASLO—

American Society for Limnology and Oceanography


CalCOFI—

California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations

CARIPOL—

Pollution Monitoring Programme in the Caribbean (IOCARIBE)

CEC—

Commission for Environmental Cooperation (related to NAFTA)

CEP-POL—

Caribbean Environmental Program on Pollution (IOC)

CFE—

Comisión Federal de Electricidad

CIBNOR—

Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, S.C.

CICESE—

Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada

CICIMAR—

Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas

CINVESTAV—

Centro de Investigaciones y de Estudios Avanzados (a unit of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional)

CLIVAR—

Climate Variability and Predictability program

CODE—

Coastal Ocean Dynamics Experiment

CONACyT—

Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología

CTZ—

Coastal Transition Zone experiment

CUE—

Coastal Upwelling Experiment


EC—

European Community

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EEZ—

exclusive economic zone

EMAP—

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (U.S. EPA)

ENSO—

El Niño-Southern Oscillation

EPA—

Environmental Protection Agency (U.S.)

ESF—

European Science Foundation


FNI—

Fundación Nacional de Investigación


GLOBEC—

Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics program

GOOS—

global ocean observing system


IAI—

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research

IAS—

Intra-Americas Sea

ICES—

International Council for the Exploration of the Seas

ICMyL—

Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Límnologia (UNAM)

IIE—

Instituto de Investigaciones Eléctricas

IIO—

Instituto de Investigaciones Oceanológicas (UABC)

INE—

Instituto Nacional de Ecología

INEGI—

Instituto Nacional de Estadística Geografía e Informática

INP—

Instituto Nacional de la Pesca

InterRIDGE—

International Ridge Inter-Disciplinary Global Experiment

IOC—

Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission

IOCARIBE—

Sub-Commission for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (IOCARIBE) of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

IPN—

Instituto Poletécnico Nacional

IRI—

International Institute for Climate Change


JGOFS—

Joint Global Ocean Flux Study

JWG—

Joint Working Group on Ocean Sciences (AMC-NRC)


LATEX—

Louisiana-Texas Shelf Circulation and Transport Processes Program

LC—

Loop Current (Gulf of Mexico)

LOICZ—

Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone program


MAST—

Marine Science and Technology Programme (EC)


NAFTA—

North American Free Trade Agreement

NAS—

National Academy of Sciences

NATO—

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

NMFS—

National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA)

NOAA—

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (U.S.)

NODC—

National Oceanic Data Center (NOAA)

NRC—

National Research Council (U.S.)

NSF—

National Science Foundation (U.S.)

NSF—

National Science Foundation (U.S.)


OCE—

NSF's Division of Ocean Sciences

ODP—

Ocean Drilling Program

OPTOMA—

Ocean Prediction Through Observational Analysis

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OSB—

Ocean Studies Board (NRC)

OSU—

Oregon State University


PAHs—

polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

PEMEX—

Petróleos Mexicanos

PICES—

North Pacific Marine Sciences Organization


RIDGE—

Ridge Inter-Disciplinary Global Experiment

ROOS—

regional ocean observing system

RSMAS—

Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (University of Miami)


SCI—

Science Citation Index

SCOR—

Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research

SEMARNP—

Secretaría del Medio Ambiente, Recursos Naturales y Pesca

SEP—

Secretaría de Educación Pública

SNI—

Sistema Nacional de Investigadores

SRE—

Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores

SWRMRP—

Southwest Regional Marine Research Program


TAMU—

Texas A&M University


UABC—

Universidad Autónoma de Baja California

UN—

United Nations

UNAM—

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

UNEP—

United Nations Environment Programme

UNESCO—

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

UNOLS—

University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System


WOCE—

World Ocean Circulation Experiment

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