Appendix D
Acronyms and Initialisms
ACCE | Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment |
AFHCAN | Alaska Federal Health Care Access Network |
AG | Action Group (SCAR) |
AGAP | Antarctic Gamburtsev Province/Antarctica’s Gamburtsev Province Project |
AGU | American Geophysical Union |
AHHI | Arctic Human Health Initiative |
ANDR1LL | ANtarctic Geological DRILLing |
AOGCM | Atmosphere-Ocean General Circulation Model |
APECS | Association of Polar Early Career Scientists |
ARMAP | Arctic Research Mapping Application |
ASAID | Antarctic Snow Accumulation and Ice Discharge |
ASEP | Amundsen Sea Embayment Project |
ASI | Arctic Social Indicators |
ASR | Arctic System Reanalysis |
ASTIS | Arctic Science and Technology Information System |
ATCM | Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting |
BSSN | Bering Sea Sub-Network |
CADIS | Cooperative Arctic Data & Information Service |
CAML | Census of Antarctic Marine Life |
CANHR | Center for Alaska Native Health Research |
CASIE | Characterization of Arctic Sea Ice Experiment |
CAVIAR | Community Adaptation and Vulnerability in the Arctic Region |
CBMP | Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program |
CCAMLR | Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources |
CDOM | colored dissolved organic matter |
CIRES | Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences |
CliC | Climate and Cyrosphere |
CODATA | Committee on Data for Science and Technology |
COMPASS | Comprehensive Meteorological Data Set of Active IPY Antarctic Measurement Phase for Scientific |
and Applied Studies | |
CRBP | Cold Regions Bibliography Project |
DADDI | Discovery, Access, and Delivery of Data for IPY |
DAHLI | Discovery and Access of Historic Literature of the IPYs |
DAMOCLES | Developing Arctic Modeling and Observing Capabilities for Long- Term Environmental Studies |
DISC | Deep Ice Sheet Coring |
DOC | dissolved organic carbon |
DOI | U.S. Department of the Interior |
EAIS | East Antarctic ice sheet |
EGU | European Geosciences Union |
eGY | Electronic Geophysical Year |
ELOKA | Exchange of Local Knowledge in the Arctic |
EPA | U.S. Environmental Protection |
Agency | |
EPB | European Polar Board |
EPPR | emergency preparedness and response mechanisms |
ESA | Endangered Species Act |
FWS | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service |
GCM | General Circulation Model |
GCMD | Global Change Master Directory |
GIIPSY | Global Inter-agency IPY Polar Snapshot Year |
GLOBE | Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment |
GRACE | Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment |
HHS | U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
IACP | Arctic Institute for Applied Circumpolar Policy |
IAGA | International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy |
iAOOS | integrated Arctic Ocean Observing System |
IASC | International Arctic Science Council |
IASOA | International Arctic Systems for Observing the Atmosphere |
ICC | Inuit Circumpolar Council |
ICDP | International Continental Drilling Program |
ICS | International Circumpolar Surveillance |
ICSU | International Council for Science |
IDDO | Ice Drilling Design and Operations |
IGERT | Interdisciplinary Graduate Education, Research, and Training |
IGS | International Glaciological Society |
IGY | International Geophysical Yeaf |
IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
IPO | International Programme Office |
IPY | International Polar Year (IPY 2007-2008?) |
IPYDIS | IPY Data and Information System |
IPYPD | International Polar Year Publications Database |
ISAC | International Study of Arctic Change |
IUCH | International Union for Circumpolar Health |
IUGG | International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics |
JC | Joint Committee |
LASP | Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado |
LIMA | Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica |
MaxNDVI | Maximum Normalized Difference Vegetation Index |
MEOP | Marine Mammals as Explorers of the Ocean Pole to Pole |
MIS | McMurdo Ice Shelf |
MMCO | Mid-Miocene Climatic Optimum |
NAS | National Academy of Sciences |
NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
NCAR | National Center for Atmospheric Research |
NEEM | North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling |
NF | Northern Forum |
NGPR | Next Generation Polar Research |
NGRIP | North Greenland Ice Core Project |
NISC | National Information Services Corporation |
NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
NPS | National Park Service |
NRC | National Research Council |
NSF | National Science Foundation |
NSIDC | National Snow and Ice Data Center |
NSTA | National Science Teachers |
Association | |
OAIPMH | Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting |
OCB | open-closed boundary (magnetosphere) |
ONR | Office of Naval Research |
OPP | National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs |
POLARCAT | Polar study using Aircraft, Remote sensing, surface measurements and modeling of Climate, chemistry, Aerosols and Transport |
PolarTREC | Teachers and Researchers Exploring and Collaborating |
POLENET | Polar Earth Observing Network |
POP | persistent organic pollutant |
PRB | U.S. Polar Research Board |
ROAM | Research and Educational Opportunities in Antarctica for Minorities |
RV1B | Research Vessel/Icebreaker |
SACNAS | Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science |
SAON | Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks |
SAR | Synthetic Aperture Radar |
SCAR | Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research |
SCSCS | Spitsbergen Climate System Current Status |
SEAOS | Southern Elephant Seals as Oceanographic Sensors |
SEARCH | Study of Environmental Arctic Change |
SHEBA | Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean Project |
SIERRA | Sensor Integrated Environmental Remote Research Aircraft |
SIKU | Sea Ice Knowledge and Use |
S1MBA | Sea Ice Mass Balance in the Antarctic |
SIPEX | Sea Ice Physics and Ecosystem experiment (Australia) |
SIWO | Sea Ice for Walrus Outlook |
SO GLOBEC | Southern Ocean Global Ocean |
Ecosystems Dynamics | |
SOOS | Southern Ocean Observing System |
SPARC-IPY | Stratospheric Processes And their Role in Climate-International Polar Year |
SPRI | Scott Polar Research Institute |
UAS | unmanned aerial systems |
UNCLOS | United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea |
UNFCCC | United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change |
USCG | U.S. Coast Guard |
USGS | U.S. Geological Survey |
WAIS | West Antarctic Ice Sheet |
WAP | Western Antarctic Peninsula |
WMO | World Meteorological Organization |