SIO CORE AND DREDGE COLLECTIONS -  FREQUENTLY USED ACRONYMS

BOSCORE - British Ocean Sediment Core Repository, Guy Rothwell, Curator
BCR - ODP Bremen Core Repository
CICESE – Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y de Ensenanza Superior de Ensenada
DOSEC - Drilling Observational Sampling of the Earth's Crust
DSDP - Deep Sea Drilling Project
ESH - Earth System History, a National Science Foundation initiative of the U. S. Global Change Research Program
EUROCORE - a European Union project building a centralized searchable Internet database of core repository data within
                     Europe. (This acronym is under review and will change in the near future.)
FORAM – foraminifer (calcareous microfossil)
GEOMAR - Research Center for Marine Geosciences, Kiel University, Germany
GEOTEK - manufacturers of multisensor tracks; Peter Schultheiss owner/contact.
GRD – Geosciences Research Division at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (formerly Geological Research Division)
GRAPE - gamma-ray attenuation porosity evaluator
HIG – Hawaii Institute of Geophysics
ICDP - International Continental Drilling Programme
IMAGES - International Marine Global Change Study
JOIDES – Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Science (science advisory group to DSDP and ODP
LAMONT - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
LDEO - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
LDGO – Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory (former name of LDEO)
LGO – Lamont Geological Observatory (former name of LDEO)
LRC - Limnological Research Center (at the University of Minnesota)
MAST - Marine Science and Technology (UK funding body)
MGSL - Marine Geological Samples Laboratory (at the University of Rhode Island)
MRC - Micropaleontology Reference Center (for DSDP and ODP reference slides)
MSCL - Multi-Sensor Core Logger
MST - Multi-Sensor Testing
NANNO(S) – calcareous microfossils (plant structures)
NERC - Natural Environment Research Council - Lead science funding organization in the United Kingdom
NGDC - National Geophysical Data Center (in Boulder, Colorado)
NIOZ - Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
NOAA – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NSF - National Science Foundation (U. S. funding agency)
NTSI - New Technologies in Scientific Imaging
ODP - Ocean Drilling Program
ODP-WCR – Ocean Drilling Program West Coast Repository located at Scripps Institution of Oceanography
OSU - Oregon State University
PAGES - Past Global Changes/International Geosphere-Biosphere Project
PBS – Phleger Bottom Sampler
RAD(S) – Radiolarians
SCAT - Split Core Analysis Track, developed by Alan Mix and others at Oregon State
SDU – San Diego State University
SOEST – University of Hawaii’s School of Earth Science and Technology
SIO - Scripps Institution of Oceanography
UCLA - University of California at Los Angeles
UCSD – University of California at San Diego
UNAM – Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
UNOLS - University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (coordinates U. S. ships' scheduling)
UK - United Kingdom
US - United States of America
USD – University of San Diego
URI - University of Rhode Island
USC - University of Southern California
USCGS – United States Coast and Geodetic Study
USCG – United States Coast Guard
USGS – United States Geological Survey
UW - University of Washington
WDCA for MGG - World Data Center A for Marine Geology & Geophysics (manager of the NGDC Curator’s Data
                           Base)
WHOI - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
XRF-CS - X-ray Fluorescence Core Scanner

(Last updated: 30 August 2001, PJW)