| NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| TEST |
Test Everything Seeking Truth |
| NGEE |
Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments |
| ABoVE |
Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment |
| NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) |
| ANTHC |
Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium |
| AA |
Arctic Amplification |
| AACA |
Adaptations Actions for a Changing Arctic |
| AAPC |
Alaska Arctic Policy Commission |
| AC |
Arctic Council |
| ACADIS |
Advance Cooperative Arctic Data and Information Se |
| ACAP |
Arctic Contaminants Action Program (AC) |
| ACCER |
Alaska Climate Change Executive Roundtable |
| ACCT |
Arctic Communities Collaboration Team (IARPC) |
| ACE |
Arctic Collaborative Environment |
| ACIA |
Arctic Climate Impact Assessment |
| ACT |
Atmosphere Collaboration Team (IARPC) |
| ADCT |
Arctic Data Collaboration Team (IARPC) |
| ADIwg |
Alaska Data Integration Working Group |
| AEIS |
Arctic Ecosystems Integrated Survey (BOEM) |
| AERONET |
Aerosol Robotic Network |
| AFE |
Alaska Forum on the Environment |
| AFN |
Alaska Federation of Natives |
| AFSC |
Alaska Fire Science Consortium |
| AFSC |
Alaska Fisheries Science Center |
| AGU |
American Geophysical Union |
| AHTWH |
Alaska Hydrography Technical Working Group |
| AK CSC |
Alaska Climate Science Center |
| AMAP |
Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AC) |
| AMEC |
Alaska Mapping Executive Committee |
| AMSER-E |
Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Obs |
| AMSS |
Alaska Marine Science Symposium |
| ANIMIDA |
Arctic Nearshore Impact Monitoring in the Developm |
| ANLC |
Alaska Native Language Center |
| ANTHC |
Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium |
| AO |
Arctic Oscilation |
| AOMIP |
Arctic Ocean Model Intercomaprison Project |
| AON |
Arctic Observing Network |
| AOOS |
Arctic Ocean Observing System |
| AOS |
Arctic Observing Summit |
| AOSCT |
Arctic Observing Systems Collaboration Team (IARPC |
| APG |
Arctic Policy Group |
| ARCUS |
Arctic Resesarch Consortium of the United States |
| ARISE |
Arctic Radiation-IceBridge Sea and Ice Experiment |
| ARM |
Atmopheric Radiation Measurement |
| ARMAP |
Arctic Research Mapping Application |
| ARPA |
Arctic Research Policy Act |
| ASAMM |
Aerial Surveys of Arctic Marine Mammals |
| ASDI |
Arctic Spatial Data Infrastructure |
| ASRC |
Arctic Slope Regional Corporation |
| ASSW |
Arctic Science Summit Week |
| BEO |
Barrow Environmental Observatory |
| BEST |
Bering Ecosystem Study |
| BLM |
Bureau of Land Management |
| BOEM |
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management |
| BSMP |
Beaufort Sea Monitoring Program (BOEM) |
| BSSN |
Bering Sea Sub-Network |
| CAFF |
Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (AC) |
| CANHR |
Center for Alaska Native Health Research |
| CBCT |
Chukchi & Beaufort seas ecosystems Collaboration T |
| CBMP |
Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program |
| CDC |
Centers for Desease Control |
| CENRS |
Committee on Environment, Natural Resources, and Sustainability |
| CESM |
Community Earth System Model |
| CHAOZ |
Chukchi Acoustic, Oceanographi, and Zooplankton |
| CI |
Cyberinfrastructure |
| CliC |
Climate and Cryosphere Program |
| CLIVAR |
Climate Variability and Predictability |
| CMIP5 |
Coupled Model Intercomarison Project Phase 5 |
| CRREL |
Cold Regions Research & Engineering Laboratory |
| CSESP |
Chukchi Sea Envionmental Studies Program |
| DBO |
Distributed Biological Observatory |
| DBOCT |
Distributed Biological Observatory Collaboration Team |
| DEC |
Department of Environmental Conservation (SoA) |
| DEM |
Digital Elevation Model |
| DF&G |
Department of Fish and Game (SoA) |
| DHHS |
Department of Health and Human Services |
| DHS |
Department of Homeland Security |
| DNR |
Department of Natural Resources (SoA) |
| DOC |
Department of Commerce |
| DOD |
Department of Defense |
| DOE |
Department of Energy |
| DOEd |
Department of Education |
| DOI |
Department of Interior |
| DOS |
Department of State |
| DOT |
Department of Transportation |
| DTM |
Digital Terrain Model |
| EBM |
Ecosystems Based Management |
| EBO |
Equivalent Black Carbon |
| EC |
European Commission or Environment Canada |
| EcoFOCI |
Ecosystems & Fisheries-Oceanography Coordinated In |
| EEZ |
Exclusive Economic Zone |
| EIS |
Ecosystem Integrated Survey (BOEM) |
| ELOKA |
Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge in t |
| EOP |
Executive Office of the President |
| EPA |
Environmental Protection Agency |
| EPB |
European Polar Board |
| EPPRWG |
Emergency Preparedness Planning and Response Worki |
| ESA |
European Space Agency |
| ESM |
Earth System Model |
| ESMF |
Earth System Modeling Framework |
| ESP |
Environmental Studies Program |
| ESPC |
Earth Systems Prediction Capability |
| ESSAS |
Ecosystem Studies of Sub-Arctic Seas |
| FAMOS |
Forum for Arctic Modeling and Observational Synthe |
| FARO |
Forum of Arctic Research Operators |
| FWS |
Fish and Wildlife Service |
| GAO |
Government Accountability Office |
| GCM |
Global Climate Model |
| GEO |
Group on Earth Observations |
| GFCT |
Glaciers & Fjords Collaboration Team (IARPC) |
| GINA |
Geographic Information Network of Alaska |
| GIS |
Geographic Information Systems |
| GLOBEC |
Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics |
| GOOS |
Global Ocean Observing System |
| GPS |
Global Postioning System |
| GRACE |
Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment |
| GRISO |
Greenland Ice Sheet and Ocean working group (CLIVA |
| GTOS |
Global Terrestrial Observing System |
| HHCT |
Human Health Collaboration Team (IARPC) |
| HIS |
Indian Health Service |
| IARC |
International Arctic Research Center (UAF) |
| IARPC |
Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee |
| IASC |
International Arctic Science Committee |
| IASOA |
International Arctic System for Observing the Atmo |
| IASSA |
International Arctic Social Sciences Association |
| ICARP |
International Conference on Arctic Research Planni |
| ICASS |
International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences |
| ICC |
Inuit Circumpolar Council |
| ICESat |
Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite |
| ICS |
International Circumpolar Surveillance |
| ICSU |
International Council for Science |
| IEA |
Integrated Ecosystems Assessment |
| IGFA |
International Group of Funding Agencies |
| IMO |
International Maritime Organization |
| INTERACT |
International Network for Terrestrial Research and |
| IOC |
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission |
| IPCC |
Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change |
| IPY |
International Polar Year |
| ISAC |
International Study of Arctic Change |
| JISAO |
Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere an |
| LCC |
Landscape Conservation Cooperative-Arctic |
| LEO |
Local Environmental Observer (ANTHC) |
| LIDAR |
Light Detection And Ranging |
| LOE |
Line of Effort (NSAR) |
| LTER |
Long Term Ecological Research |
| LTK |
Local and Traditional Knowledge |
| MARES |
Marine Arctic Ecosystem Study |
| MCT |
Modeling Collaboration Team (IARPC) |
| MIP |
Model Intercomparison Project |
| MISR |
Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer |
| MIZ |
Marginal Ice Zone |
| MIZOPEX |
Marginal Ice Zone Observations Processes and Exper |
| MMC |
Marine Mammal Commission |
| MODIS |
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer |
| MOSAiC |
Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Stu |
| NAB |
Northwest Arctic Burough |
| NAO |
North Atlantic Oscilation |
| NAS |
National Academy of Sciences |
| NASA |
National Aeronautics and Sapce Administration |
| NCDC |
National Climate Data Center |
| NED |
National Elevation Dataset |
| NEH |
National Endowment for Humanities |
| NGA |
National Geospatial Agency |
| NGDC |
National Geophysical Data Center |
| NGEE-Arctic |
Next Generation Ecosystems Experiment |
| NGO |
Non-governmental Organization |
| NIC |
National Ice Center |
| NIH |
National Institutes of Health |
| NIMH |
National Institute on Mental Health |
| NMFS |
National Marine Fisheries Service |
| NOAA |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| NOC |
National Ocean Council |
| NODC |
National Oceanographic Data Center |
| NOPP |
National Oceanographic Partnership Program |
| NPR-A |
National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska |
| NPRB |
North Pacific Research Board |
| NPS |
National Park Service |
| NSAR |
National Strategy for the Arctic Region |
| NSB |
North Slope Borough |
| NSB |
National Science Board (NSF) |
| NSF |
National Science Foundation |
| NSIDC |
National Snow and Ice Data Center |
| NSREA |
North Slope Rapid Ecological Assessment |
| NSSI |
North Slope Science Initiative |
| NSTC |
National Science and Technology Council |
| NWS |
National Weather Service |
| ODP |
Ocean Data Portal |
| ONR |
Office of Naval Research |
| PacMARS |
Pacific Marine Arctic Regional Synthesi |
| PAG |
Pacific Arctic Group |
| PAME |
Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment (AC) |
| PI |
Principal Investigator |
| PMEL |
Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (NOAA) |
| POPs |
Persistent Organic Pollutants |
| PPP |
Polar Prediction Project |
| PRB |
Polar Research Board |
| QA/QC |
Quality Assurance/Quality Control |
| R/V |
Research Vessel |
| RADARSAT |
Radar Satellite |
| RCM |
Regional Climate Model |
| RFP |
Request for Proposal |
| RISA |
Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments |
| ROSES |
Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences |
| RUSALCA |
Russian American Long-term Consus of the Arctic |
| SAON |
Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks |
| SAP |
Subsistence Advisory Panel |
| SAR |
Synthetic Aperture Radar |
| SCTF |
Science Cooperation Task Force (AC) |
| SDI |
Spatial Data Infrastructure (AC) |
| SDMI |
Statewide Digital Mapping Initiative (State) |
| SDWG |
Sustainable Develoment Working Group |
| SEARCH |
Study of Envionmental Arctic Change |
| SEES |
Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability |
| SGCR |
Subcommittee on Global Change Research (NSTC) |
| SI |
Smithsonian Institutes |
| SICT |
Sea Ice Collaboration Team (IARPC) |
| SIPN |
Sea Ice Prediction Network |
| SLCFs |
Shortlived Climate Forcers |
| SLR |
Sea Level Rise |
| SMAP |
Soil Moisture Active Passive |
| SNAP |
Scenarios Network for Alaska & Arctic Planning |
| SoA |
State of Alaska |
| SOAR |
Stynthesis of Arctic Research |
| SS |
Sea Surface |
| SSH |
Sea Surface Height |
| SST |
Sea Surface Temperature |
| STPI |
Science Technology Policy Institute |
| SWIPA |
Snow, Water, Ice, and Permafrost in the Arctic |
| TECT |
Terrestrial Ecosystems Collaboration Team (IARPC) |
| TEON |
Terrestrial Environmental Observing Network |
| TES |
Troposheric Emission Spectrometer |
| TFBCM |
Task Force on Black Carbon and Methane (AC) |
| TFOPP |
Task Force on Arctic Marine Oil Pollution and Prevention |
| UAF |
University of Alaska at Fairbanks |
| UAS |
Unpiloted Aerial Systems |
| UAV |
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle |
| UNCLOS |
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea |
| UNESCO |
United Nations Education Scientific and Cultural O |
| UNOLS |
University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System |
| USACE |
US Army Corps of Engineers |
| USARC |
US Arctic Research Commission |
| USCG |
United States Coast Guard |
| USDA |
United States Department of Agriculture |
| USGCRP |
US Global Change Research Program |
| UUV |
Unmanned Underwater Vehicle |
| VIIRS |
Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite |
| WCRP |
World Climate Research Project |
| WCT |
Wildfires Collaboration Team (IARPC) |
| WMO |
World Meterological Organization |
| WWF |
World Wildlife Fund |
| WWRP |
World Weather Research Programs |
| YOPP |
Year of Polar Predictions |