AMS: Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
AO: Arctic Oscillation
ATM: Division of ATMospheric Sciences
BE: Biocomplexity in the Environment
BIO: Directorate for Biosciences
BP: before present
CCM-1: Community Climate Model-1
CCSP: Climate Change Science Program
CSBE: Center for Synthesis in Biological Evolution
DDIG: Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
DEB: Division of Environmental Biology
DSDP: Deep Sea Drilling Project
EAR: Division of Earth Sciences
EPA: Environmental Protection Agency
ERE: Environmental Research and Education
EROC: Ecological Rates of Change
ESH: Earth Systems History Program
ESPRI: Earth Surface Processes Research Institute
GE: Geology and Paleontology Program
GEG: Geobiology and Environmental Geochemistry
GEO: Directorate for Geosciences
GEON: Geosciences Network
GLD: Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics
GPD: Global Pollen Database
GTER: Geologic Time Ecological Research
IGERT: Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship
IODP: Integrated Ocean Drilling Program
ITDMS: Isotope Dilution Mass Spectrometry
LTER: Long-Term Ecological Research
MESH: Marine Aspects of Earth Systems History
NAO: North Atlantic Oscillation
NAPD: North American Pollen Database
NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NCEAS: National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
NEON: National Ecological Observatory Network
NOAA: National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
NRC: National Research Council
NSF: National Science Foundation
OCE: Division of Ocean Sciences
ODP: Ocean Drilling Program