Acronym Definitions | International Quiet Ocean Experiment (IQOE)

ADCP: Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler
ABB-SIO RAS: Autonomous Bottom Buoys Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences
APL-UW: Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington
ARCTIC-NET+: Network of Centres of Excellence of Canada to study the coastal Canadian Arctic
ARGOMARINE: Automated Oil Spill Recognition and Geopositioning Integrated in a Marine Monitoring Network (European Union Framework 7 Programme project
ALOHA: Cabled observatory 100 km north of Oahu, owned and operated by the University of Hawaii
AMAR: Advanced Multi-channel Acoustic Recorder (JASCO)
ANTARES: Astronomy with a Neutrino Telescope and Abyss environmental RESearch (an installation of the EuroSITES European Ocean Observatory Network)
AUR: Autonomous Underwater Recorder
AURALs: Autonomous Underwater Recorder for Acoustic Listening
AUSOMS: automatic underwater sound monitoring systems
AUTEC: Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center (U.S. Navy)
AWI: Alfred-Wegener-Institut (Germany)
AZTI: an expert technology center in marine and food research
BP: British Petroleum
BPR: bottom pressure recorder
CFI: Canada Foundation for Innovation
Chl: chlorophyll
CMST-DSTO: Centre for Marine Science and Technology-Defense Science and Technology Organisation (Curtin University, Australia)
CPAM: compact passive acoustic monitor
cPOD: click detection and passive acoustic monitoring
CTBTO: Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization
CTD: conductivity-temperature-depth
DASAR: Directional Autonomous Seafloor Acoustic Recorders
DFO: Department of Fisheries and Oceans (Canada)
DONET: Dense Oceanfloor Network for Earthquakes and Tsunamis
EARS: Ecological Acoustic Recorder
ESTOC: European Station for Time Series in the Ocean
GOOS: Global Ocean Observing System
HAFOS: Hybrid Arctic/Antarctic Float Observing System
HARP: High-frequency Acoustic Recording Packages
HOT: Hawaiian Ocean Time-series Hydra Acoustic telemetry service on the U.S. Pacific Coast
IMOS: Integrated Marine Observing System (Australia)
IOOS: Integrated Ocean Observing System (U.S.)
IOPAS: Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences
JAMSTEC: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
JdF Ridge: Juan de Fuca Ridge
LFN/INGV: Low-Frequency Noise System of the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
MARU: marine acoustic recording unit
MMRM: marine mammal risk mitigation
MPA: marine protected area
NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (U.S.)
NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NEMO: NEutrino Mediterranean Observatory
NEPTUNE: NorthEast Pacific Time-Series Undersea Networked Experiments 101
NMML: National Marine Mammal Laboratory (U.S.)
NOAA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (U.S.)
NOAA EcoFOCI: NOAA Ecosystems & Fisheries-Oceanography Coordinated Investigations
NSF: National Science Foundation (U.S.)
NSW: New South Wales (Australia)
NURC: NATO Undersea Research Centre
OBSEA: Expandable Seafloor Observatory (Spain)
ONR: Office of Naval Research (U.S.)
OOI: Ocean Observatories Initiative (U.S.)
OOI RSN: OOI Regional Scale Nodes
OOS: Ocean Observing System
PAL: Passive Acoustic Listener
PALAOA: Perennial Aco ustic Observatory in the Antarctic Ocean (AWI)
PAMBuoy: Passive Acoustic Monitoring Buoy
Station PAPA: Ocean Station P at 50°N, 145°W
PLOCAN: Plataforma Oceánica de Canarias
PMEL: Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (NOAA)
PMRF: Pacific Missile Range Facility
POI: Pacific Oceanological Institute
SBNMS: Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary (U.S.)
SEAWAYS SEAWAYS: Ocean Innovation (France)
SEIC: Sakhalin Energy Investment Company
SOCAL: Southern California Range Complex
SOSUS: Sound Surveillance System (U.S.)
SPURS: Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study
SVP: sound velocity profile
UPC: Universitat Politetécnica de Catalunya
UQAR: Université du Québec à Rimouski (Canada)
VENUS: Victoria Experimental Network Under the Sea (Canada)
WA: Western Australia