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Suggested Citation:"Appendix E: List of Acronyms." National Research Council. 2010. Landscapes on the Edge: New Horizons for Research on Earth's Surface. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12700.
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APPENDIX E
List of Acronyms

AGU American Geophysical Union

ALSM airborne laser swath mapping

AMS accelerator mass spectrometry

ARS Agricultural Research Service (USDA)

B.P. before present

BROES Basic Research Opportunities in Earth Science (NRC)

CAMS Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry

CIG Computation Infrastructure for Geodynamics

CNH Dynamics of Coupled and Natural Human Systems Program

COMET Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education and Training

CRN cosmogenic radionuclide

CRONUS Cosmic-Ray produced nuclide systematics on Earth

CSDMS Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System

CUAHSI Consortium of Universities for Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc.

CZEN Critical Zone Exploration Network

CZO Critical Zone Observatory

DEP Deep Earth Processes

EAGER Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (NSF)

EAR Division of Earth Sciences (NSF)

EROS Earth Resources and Observation Science Center (USGS)

Suggested Citation:"Appendix E: List of Acronyms." National Research Council. 2010. Landscapes on the Edge: New Horizons for Research on Earth's Surface. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12700.
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ESE Environment, Society, and the Economy

ETBC Emerging Topics in Biogeochemical Cycles

GEO Directorate for Geosciences (NSF)

GEON Geosciences Network

GIS geographic information systems

GSA Geological Society of America

IRIS Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology

InSAR interferometric synthetic aperture radar

Lidar light detection and ranging

LTER Long Term Ecological Research

MSM Multiscale Modeling

MYRES Meeting of Young Researchers in Earth Sciences

NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NAVSTAR Navigation Satellite Timing and Ranging

NCALM National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping

NCEAS National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis

NCED National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics

NEON National Ecological Observatory Network

NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NRC National Research Council

NRCS Natural Resource Conservation Service

NSF National Science Foundation

OSL optically stimulated luminescence

PRIME Purdue Rare Isotope Measurement

RAPID Grants for search (NSF)

SEP Surface Earth Processes (NSF)

SMM Science Museum of Minnesota

STC Science and Technology Center (NSF)

UNAVCO University NAVSTAR Consortium

Suggested Citation:"Appendix E: List of Acronyms." National Research Council. 2010. Landscapes on the Edge: New Horizons for Research on Earth's Surface. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12700.
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UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization

USDA U.S. Department of Agriculture

USGS U.S. Geological Survey

Suggested Citation:"Appendix E: List of Acronyms." National Research Council. 2010. Landscapes on the Edge: New Horizons for Research on Earth's Surface. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12700.
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During geologic spans of time, Earth's shifting tectonic plates, atmosphere, freezing water, thawing ice, flowing rivers, and evolving life have shaped Earth's surface features. The resulting hills, mountains, valleys, and plains shelter ecosystems that interact with all life and provide a record of Earth surface processes that extend back through Earth's history. Despite rapidly growing scientific knowledge of Earth surface interactions, and the increasing availability of new monitoring technologies, there is still little understanding of how these processes generate and degrade landscapes.

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