APPENDIX B
Acronyms and Abbreviations
AMS
Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
AO
Arctic Oscillation
ATM
Division of Atmospheric Sciences
BE
Biocomplexity in the Environment
BIO
Directorate for Biosciences
BP
Before Present
CCM-1
Community Climate Model-1
CCSP
Climate Change Science Program
CSBE
Center for Synthesis in Biological Evolution
DDIG
Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
DEB
Division of Environmental Biology
DSDP
Deep Sea Drilling Project
EAR
Division of Earth Sciences
ENSO
El Niño-Southern Oscillation
EPA
Environmental Protection Agency
ERE
Environmental Research and Education
EROC
Ecological Rates of Change
ESH
Earth Systems History Program
ESPRI
Earth Surface Processes Research Institute
GE
Geology and Paleontology Program
GEG
Geobiology and Environmental Geochemistry
GEO
Directorate for Geosciences
GEON
Geosciences Network
GLD
Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics
GPD
Global Pollen Database
GTER
Geologic Time Ecological Research
IGERT
Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship
IODP
Integrated Ocean Drilling Program
ITDMS
Isotope Dilution Mass Spectrometry
LTER
Long Term Ecological Research
MESH
Marine Aspects of Earth Systems History
NAO
North Atlantic Oscillation
NAPD
North American Pollen Database
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NCEAS
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
NEON
National Ecological Observatory Network
NOAA
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
NRC
National Research Council
NSF
National Science Foundation
OCE
Division of Ocean Sciences
ODP
Ocean Drilling Program
PAGES
Past Global Changes
PDO
Pacific Decadal Oscillation
PRISM
Pliocene Research, Interpretation, and Synoptic Mapping
SALVIAS
Spatial Analysis of Local Vegetation Inventories Across Scales
SGP
Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology Program
SHRIMP
Super High-Resolution Ion Microbe
SI
Stomatal Index
SST
sea-surface temperature
STAR
Science to Achieve Results
USGS
U.S. Geological Survey
YDI
Younger Dryas Interval
