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)
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