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Oceanography in the Next Decade: Building New Partnerships
ONR
Office of Naval Research
ONT
Office of Naval Technology
OSB
Ocean Studies Board
OSC
Orbital Sciences Corporation
OSRS
Ocean Science Research Support (NSF)
PI
principal investigator
P.O.
Physical oceanography
POM
particulate organic material
RIDGE
Ridge Inter-Disciplinary Global Experiment
ROV
remotely operated vehicle
R/V
research vessel
SAR
synthetic aperture radar
SCAT
Scatterometer
SeaWiFS
Sea-viewing Wide Field Sensor; an ocean color satellite instrument
SIO
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
TOGA
Tropical Ocean-Global Atmosphere program
TOPEX/Poseidon
Joint NASA/French Space Agency venture to measure the surface topography of the ocean with great precision
UH
University of Hawaii
UNOLS
University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System