ADCP - Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler
AFSC = Alaska Fisheries Science Center
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
CLIVAR - The CLImate VARiability and Predictability program
EcoFOCI - Ecosystems & Fisheries-Oceanography Coordinated Investigations
ESSAS - Ecosystem Studies of Sub-Arctic Seas
FOCI - Fisheries-Oceanography Coordinated Ivestigations
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
NMFS - National Marine Fisheries Service
NMML - National Marine Mammal Laboratory
NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NPCREP - North Pacific Climate Regimes and Ecosystem Productivity
NPRB - North Pacific Research Board
NSF - National Science Foundation
SEBSCC - Southeast Bering Sea Carrying Capacity
LOSI - Loss of Sea Ice
OCC - Ocean Carrying Capacity
PICES - The North Pacific Marine Science Organization
PMEL - Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
RACE - Resource Assessment and Conservation Engineering  (Div. of NOAA/AFSC)
REFM - Resource Ecology and Fisheries Management (Div. of NOAA/AFSC)
USGS - U.S. Geological Survey
WOCE  - World Ocean Circulation Experiment