ADCP - Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler
AFSC = Alaska Fisheries Science Center (NOAA)
APL  - Applied Physics Lab (Univ.of Washington)
AOOS - Alaska Ocean Observing System
BASIS - Bering-Aleutian Salmon International Survey
BEST - Bering Sea Ecosystem Study
BSIERP - Bering Sea Integrated Ecosystem Research Program
CIRES - Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
CLIVAR - The CLImate VARiability and Predictability program
DODS - Distributed Oceanographic Data System
EcoFOCI - Ecosystems & Fisheries-Oceanography Coordinated Investigations (NOAA)
ENSO - El Niņo Southern Oscillation
ESSAS - Ecosystem Studies of Sub-Arctic Seas
FOCI - Fisheries-Oceanography Coordinated Investigations (NOAA)
FOX - Fisheries Oceanography EXperiment (precursor to FOCI (NOAA))
GLOBEC - GLOBal Ocean ECosystems Dynamics
GOOS - Global Ocean Observing System
IOOS - Integrated Ocean Observing System
IPY - International Polar Year
JGOFS - Joint Global Ocean Flux Study
JISAO - Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean
KBRR - Kachemak Bay Research Reserve
NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NCAR - National Center for Atmospheric Research
NCDC - National Climatic Data Center (NOAA)
NCEP - National Centers for Environmental Prediction
NMFS - National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA)
NMML - National Marine Mammal Laboratory (NOAA)
NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NODC - National Oceanographic Data Center (NOAA)
NPCREP - North Pacific Climate Regimes and Ecosystem Productivity
NPRB - North Pacific Research Board
NSIDC - National Snow and Ice Data Center 
NSF - National Science Foundation
SEBSCC - Southeast Bering Sea Carrying Capacity (NOAA)
LOSI - Loss of Sea Ice (NOAA)
OAR - Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research
OCC - Ocean Carrying Capacity
PICES - The North Pacific Marine Science Organization
PMEL - Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (NOAA)
RACE - Resource Assessment and Conservation Engineering  (Div. of NOAA/AFSC)
REFM - Resource Ecology and Fisheries Management (Div. of NOAA/AFSC)
UCAR - University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
USGS - U.S. Geological Survey
WOCE  - World Ocean Circulation Experiment