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50 Years of Ocean Discovery: National Science Foundation 1950—2000
DDT
dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane
DES
Division of Environmental Sciences (NSF)
DISCO
Dissertations in Chemical Oceanography
DOE
Department of Energy
DSDP
Deep Sea Drilling Program
EF
Environmental Forecasting (IDOE)
ENSO
El Niño-Southern Oscillation
EPOCS
Eastern Pacific Ocean Climate Study
EPR
East Pacific Rise
ERDA
Energy Research and Development Administration
EQ
Environmental Quality (IDOE)
ES
Division of Earth Sciences (NSF)
FAMOUS
French-American Mid-Ocean Undersea Study
FOCUS
Future of Ocean Chemistry in the United States
FUMAGES
Future of Marine Geology and Geophysics
GARP
Global Atmospheric Research Program
GCM
general circulation models
GDC
Geologic Data Center
GEO
Directorate for Geosciences (NSF)
GEOSECS
Geochemical Ocean Sections Study
GFD
geophysical fluid dynamics
GLOBEC
Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics program
GODAE
Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment
GSO
Graduate School of Oceanography (Univ. of Rhode Island)
ICO
Interagency Committee on Oceanography
ICP-MS
inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer
ICSU
International Council of Scientific Unions (now the International Council for Science)
IDOE
International Decade of Ocean Exploration
IGY
International Geophysical Year
IIOE
International Indian Ocean Exploration
IOC
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
IODP
Integrated Ocean Drilling Program
IPA
Intergovernmental Personnel Agreement
IPOD
International Program for Ocean Drilling
ISOS
International Southern Ocean Studies
JGOFS
Joint Global Ocean Flux Study
JOI
Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc.
JOIDES
Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling
