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Acronyms
ACC
Alaska Coastal Current
ADCP
acoustic Doppler current profiler
BATS
Bermuda Atlantic Time Series
CalCOFI
California Cooperative Fisheries Investigations
EOS
NASA’s Earth Observing System
EVOS
Exxon Valdez oil spill
EVOSTC
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council
GAK1
Gulf of Alaska station 1 located at the mouth of Resurrection Bay (60 N, 149 W)
GEM
Gulf Ecosystem Monitoring
GLOBEC
Global Ecosystem Dynamics program
GOA
Gulf of Alaska
GOFS
U.S. Global Ocean Flux Study
HOTS
Hawaii Ocean Time Series
IPRC
International Pacific Research Center
JGOFS
Joint Global Ocean Flux Study
LTER
Long-Term Ecological Research
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NOAA
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NRC
National Research Council
NSF
National Science Foundation
ONR
Office of Naval Research
PSAMP
Puget Sound Ambient Monitoring program
PWS
Prince William Sound
RFP
Request for Proposals
RIDGE
Ridge Inter-Disciplinary Global Experiments
SALSA
Semi-Arid Land-Surface-Atmosphere program
SOLAS
Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study