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Acronyms/Abbreviations
This List of Acronyms and other Abbreviations was compiled from the coral, coral reef, marine tropical ecosystems, and related peer-reviewed literature, grey literature, and other written and electronic reports, including e-mail messages. The terms on the list number nearly 3,600 (as of February 2010) and continue to grow on a daily to weekly basis. CoRIS invites readers to suggest additional acronyms and abbreviations via coris.metadata@noaa.gov or coris@noaa.gov.
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Acronyms A - Z Pages
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| E-SWDS | External Space Weather. Database Store (NOAA) |
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| E.O. | Executive Order |
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| EA | Environmental Assessment |
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| EAC | East Australian Current |
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| EAC | Ecology Action Centre (Canada) |
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| EAC | Educators Advisory Committee (REEF) |
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| EACC | East African Coast Current |
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| EAD | Equivalent Air Depth |
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| EAF | Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries |
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| EAFM | Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management |
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| EAG | Environmental Awareness Group (Antigua and Barbuda) |
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| EAM | Ecosystem Approach to Management |
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| EAME | Eastern African Marine Ecoregion |
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| EANx | Enriched Air Nitrox |
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| EAPC | Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council |
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| EAPEI | East Asia and Pacific Environmental Initiative |
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| EAR | Ecosystem Assessment and Restoration (FWC Florida) |
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| EAR | Ecological Acoustic Recorder |
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| EAS | European Aquaculture Society |
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| EAS-SG | European Aquaculture Society - Student Group |
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| EAST | Environmental Association of St. Thomas - St. John |
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| EAZA | European Association of Zoos and Aquaria |
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| EAZO | Energetically Active Zones of the Ocean |
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| EBA | Ecosystem Based Approaches |
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| EBA | Endemic Bird Area |
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| EbA | Ecosystem-based Adaptation |
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| EBFM | Ecosystem Based Fishery Management |
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| EBI | European Bioinformatics Institute |
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| EBM | Ecosystem Based Management |
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| EBS | Environmental Biodiversity Services |
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| EBS | Emergency Breathing System |
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| EBSA | Ecologically or Biologically Significant Area |
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| EC | Environment Canada |
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| EC | Ecosystem Component |
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| EC | European Commission |
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| EC | European Communities |
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| ECA | Ecologically Critical Area |
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| ECC | Exploration Command Center |
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| ECC | Eastern Caribbean Center (UVI) |
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| ECC | Equatorial Counter Current (Pacific Equatorial Undercurrent) |
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| ECCM | Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Management |
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| ECFP | Enhanced Cyan Fluorescent Protein |
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| ECLAC-CDCC | Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean-Development and Cooperation Committee |
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| ECLEI | International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives |
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| ECNAMP | Eastern Caribbean Natural Area Management Programme |
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| ECNC | European Center for Nature Conservation |
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| ECO | Earth Communications Office |
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| ECO | National Historic and Ecological Preserve |
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| Eco-DAS | Ecological Dissertations in the Aquatic Sciences (UHI) |
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| ECOHAB | Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms (NOAA/NSF) |
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| EcoMar | Marine Biodiversity of Hispaniola Island |
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| ECOMAR | Ecosystems of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at the Sub-Polar Front and Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone |
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| ECOMOUND | Environmental Controls on Mound Formation Along the European Margin |
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| ECOSUD | Ecosystems and Sustainable Development |
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| ECOSUR | El Colegio de La Frontera Sur |
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| ECRD | East Coast Research and Development Trust (India) |
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| ECS | EOSDIS Core System |
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| ECS | Extended Continental Shelf |
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| ECSU | Eastern Connecticut State University |
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| ECTF | Edinburgh Centre for Tropical Forests |
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| ECV | Essential Climate Variables |
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| EDAB | Ecosystem Disruptive Algal Bloom |
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| EDAC | Ecosystems Data Assembly Center (NOAA) |
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| EDC | Florida Keys Eco-Discovery Center (NOAA) |
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| EDC | Electronic Data Capture |
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| EDCP | Enhanced Data Collection Project |
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| EDEN | Everglades Depth Estimation Network |
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| EDF | Environmental Defense Fund |
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| EDF | European Development Fund |
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| EDGAR | Emission Database for Global Atmospheric Research |
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| EDGE | Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered |
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| EDIS | Environmental Data and Information Service (now NESDIS) |
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| EDIT | European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy |
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| EDL | Environmental Data Logger |
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| EDM | Fisheries Enterprise Data Management |
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| EDM | Electronic Distance Measuring |
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| EDMED | European Directory on Marine Environmental Datasets |
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| EDMERP | European Directory on Marine Environmental Research Projects |
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| EDOCC | Ecological Determinants of Ocean Carbon Cycling |
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| EDP | Executive Decision Process (NOAA) |
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| EDPO | American Samoa Economic and Development Planning Office |
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| EDRR | Early Detection and Rapid Response |
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| EDTA | Ethylenediaminetetraacetic Acid |
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| EE | Environmental Envelope |
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| EEA | European Environment Agency |
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| EEAA | Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency |
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| EEE | Excessive Excitation Energy |
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| EEID | Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases |
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| EEM | Expedition Education Modules (OE/NOAA) |
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| EEMP | East End Marine Park (St. Croix) |
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| EEO | Equal Employment Opportunity |
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| EEP | Ecosystem Enhancement Program |
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| EEPSEA | Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia |
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| EESI | Environmental and Energy Study Institute |
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| EESLI | Energy, Ecosystems and Sustainable Livelihoods Initiative (IUCN) |
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| EEZ | Exclusive Economic Zone |
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| EF | Enrichment Factor |
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| EFGB | East Flower Garden Banks |
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| EFH | Essential Fish Habitat |
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| EFHRC | Essential Fish Habitat Review Committee |
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| EFMP | Ecosystem Fishery Management Plan |
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| EFTET | Energy Filtering Transmission Electron Tomography |
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| EGA | Ecological Gap analysis |
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| EGFP | Enhanced GFP |
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| EGMEX | Eastern Gulf of Mexico |
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| EGP | Environmental Genetics Program |
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| EGP | Eastern Garbage Patch |
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| EGT | Ecosystems Goal Team (NOAA) |
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| EHMP | Ecosystem Health Monitoring Program (SEQ) |
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| EHS | Extremely Hazardous Substance |
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| EI | Ecosystem Integrity |
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| EI | Earthwatch Institute |
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| EIA | Environmental impact assessment |
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| EIANZ | Environment Institute of Australia & New Zealand |
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| EIC | Equatorial Intermediate Current |
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| EID | Emerging Infectious Disease |
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| EIFEX | European Iron Fertilization Experiment |
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| EIM | Environmental Information management (Washington State) |
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| EIMS | Environmental Information Management System (EPA) |
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| EIONET | European Environment Information and Observation Network |
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| EIR | Environmental Impact Review |
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| EIS | Environmental Information System |
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| EIS | Environmental Impact Statement |
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| EISF | Essential Image Source Foundation |
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| EITS | Eye-in-the-Sea (NOAA) |
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| EL | Ecology Letters |
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| ELF | Eliminate Lionfish Tool |
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| ELG | Ecosystems and Livelihoods Group |
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| ELI | Environmental Law Institute |
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| ELIP | Early Light Induced protein |
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| ELISA | Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay |
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| ELMR | Estuarine Living Marine Resources |
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| ELUB | Estuaries and Land Use Branch (NCCOS/NOAA) |
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| EM | Electromagnetic |
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| EMA | Existing Management Area |
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| EMA | Environmental Management Authority (T&T) |
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| EMAP | Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EPA) |
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| EMAX | Energy Modeling and Analysis eXercise |
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| EMBL | European Molecular Biology Laboratory |
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| EMBL-Bank | EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database |
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| EMBnet | European Molecular Biology Network |
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| EMBO | European Molecular Biology Organization |
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| EMC | Environmental Modeling Center (NOAA) |
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| EMDW | Eastern Mediterranean Deep Water |
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| EMODNET | European Marine Observation and Data Network |
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| EMPSR | Experimental Marine Pollution Surveillance Report (NOAA) |
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| EMR | Electromagnetic Radiation |
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| EMS | Environmental Management System |
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| EMS | Electromagnetic Spectrum |
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| EMS | Electronic Monitoring System |
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| EMT | Executive Management Team (NOAA) |
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| EMT | Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transformation |
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| EN | Endangered |
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| ENAW | Eastern North Atlantic Water |
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| ENBI | European Network of Biodiversity Information |
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| ENC | Electronic Navigational Chart |
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| ENFEN | Peruvian National Committee on El Niño Phenomenon Study |
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| ENN | Environmental News Network |
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| ENP | Everglades National Park |
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| ENRICH | European Network for Research In global Change |
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| ENSO | El Nino Southern Oscillation |
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| ENTRI | Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators |
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| ENVIS | Environmental Information System (India) |
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| ENVISAT | Environmental Satellite |
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| EO | Law Enforcement Officer |
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| EO | Executive Order |
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| EOC | Emergency Operations Center |
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| EOD | Ecosystems and Oceanography Division (NOAA) |
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| EOE | Extension, Outreach and Education ilot Program (NOAA) |
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| EOI | Eastern Oslofjord Inlet |
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| EOI | Expression of Interest |
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| EOL | Encyclopedia of Life |
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| EOP | Ecosystem Observations Program (NOAA) |
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| EORR | Experimental Oculina Research Reserve |
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| EOS | Earth Observation System/Satellite (NOAA) |
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| EOSDIS | EOS Data and Information System |
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| EosFP | Photoconvertible Fluorescent Protein |
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| EP | Environmental Parameter |
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| EPA | Environmental Protection Agency |
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| EPA | Environmental Protection Area |
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| EPA | Eicosapentaenoic acid |
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| EPAP | Ecosystem Principals Advisory Panel |
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| EPBC Act | Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Australia) |
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| EPBRS | European Platform for Biodiversity Research Strategy |
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| EPCRA | Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act |
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| EPHE | Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes |
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| EPI | Environmental Performance Index |
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| EPIRB | Emergency Positioning Indicating Radio Beacon) |
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| EPIRB | Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon |
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| EPO | Eastern Pacific Ocean |
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| EPOC | Eastern Pacific Oceanic Conference |
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| EPOCA | European Project on Ocean Acidification |
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| EPOCS | Equatorial Pacific Ocean Climate Studies |
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| EPP | Environmental Protection Plan (Palau) |
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| EPP | Educational Partnership Program (NOAA) |
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| EPPZ | Environmental Preservation and Protection Zone |
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| EPPZ/FCMZ | Environmental Preservation and Protection Zone /Fisheries Conservation and Management Zone |
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| EPR | Electron Paramagnetic Resonance; also Electron Spin Resonance |
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| EPV | Ecological Process Value |
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| EQA | Environmental Quality Award |
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| EQB | Environmental Quality Board (Puerto Rico) |
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| EQPB | Environmental Quality Protection Board (Palau) |
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| EQY | Effective Quantum Yield |
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| ER | Emergency Room |
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| ER | Endoplasmic Reticulum |
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| ERA | Estuary Resoration Act |
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| ERA | Ecological Reserve Area |
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| ERA-NET | European Research Area Networking |
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| ERAP | Emergency Response Action Plan |
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| ERD | Environmental Research Division (NOAA) |
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| ERD | Emergency Response Division (NOAA) |
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| ERDA | EarthRef.org Digital Archive |
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| ERDDAP | Environmental Research Division’s Data Access Program |
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| ERESE | Enduring Resources for Earth Sciences Education |
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| ERF | Estuarine Research Federation |
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| ERFEN | Estudio Regional del Fenómeno El Niño |
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| ERG | Ecosystems Research Group |
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| ERIN | Environmental Resources Information Network (Australia) |
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| ERK | Extracellular Signal-Regulated Kinase |
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| ERL | Environmental Research Laboratories (NOAA) |
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| ERM | Environmental Resources Management (Hong Cong) |
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| ERMA | Emergency Response Management Application |
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| ERMS | European Register of Marine Species |
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| EROS | Earth Resources Observation System |
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| ERP | Ecosystems Research Program (NOAA) |
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| ERP | Environmental Resource Permit |
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| ERSST Data Set | Extended Reconstruction of SST Data Set |
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| ESA | European Space Agency |
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| ESA | Ecological Society of America |
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| ESA | Endangered Species Act |
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| ESA | Environmental Site Assessment |
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| ESA | Environmentally Sensitive Area |
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| ESADS | Earth Science and Applications Data System |
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| ESB | Endangered Species Branch (NMFS/NOAA) |
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| ESB | Environmental Specimen Bank(ing) |
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| ESBM | Ecosystem-Based Management |
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| ESC | Erosion and Sediment Control |
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| ESC | Exotic Species Coordination (FWC Florida) |
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| ESC | Endangered Species Coalition |
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| ESCAP | Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific |
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| ESD | Ecologically Sustainable Development |
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| ESDIS | Earth Science Data and Information System |
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| ESI | Environmental Sustainability Index |
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| ESI | Environmental Sensitivity Index |
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| ESI | Endangered Species International |
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| ESI Map | Environmental Sensitivity Index Map |
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| ESID | EcoSpatial Information Database |
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| ESIP | Earth Science Information Partners |
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| ESJ | Ecological Society of Japan |
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| ESM | Earth System Monitor (NOAA) |
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| ESP | Environmental Science & Policy Department (GMU) |
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| ESP- GSA | GMU's Environmental Science and Policy department and Graduate Student Association |
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| ESPC | Environmental Satellite Processing Center (NOAA) |
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| ESR | Electron Spin Resonance |
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| ESRI | Environmental Systems Research Institute |
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| ESRL | Earth System Research Laboratory (NOAA) |
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| ESSP | Earth System Science Partnership |
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| EST | Expressed Sequence Tag |
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| ESTM | School of Tourism and Maritime Technology (IPL) |
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| ESTOC | European Station for Time-series in the Ocean Canary Islands |
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| ESU | Evolutionarily Significant Unit |
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| ESUR | Ecosystem Services for Urbanizing Regions |
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| ET | Environment Tobago |
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| ET-EGOS | Expert Team on Evolution of the Global Observing System |
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| ETC | Electron Transport Chain |
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| ETDMP | Expert Team on Data Management Practices |
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| ETI | Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification |
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| ETM | Enhanced Thematic Mapper |
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| ETM+ | Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus |
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| ETMAES | Expert Team on Marine Accident and Emergency Response |
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| ETMER | Establishment of Tropical Marine Ecological Research (Japan) |
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| ETMSS | Expert Team on Maritime Safety Systems |
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| ETOH | Ethanol |
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| ETP | Eastern Tropical Pacific |
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| ETPS | Eastern Tropical Pacific Seascape |
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| ETR | Electron Transport Rate |
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| ETSI | Expert Team on Sea Ice |
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| ETWS | Expert Team on Wind Waves and Storm Surges |
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| EU | European Union |
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| EUC | Equatorial Undercurrent (Cromwell Current) |
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| EUC | Eutrophication Committee (OSPAR) |
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| EUMETSAT | European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites |
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| EUNIS | European Universities Information System |
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| EUNIS | European Nature Information System |
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| EuroGOOS | European GOOS |
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| EuroTRACES | European Trans-Atlantic Coral Ecosystem Study |
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| EVAAM | Etablissement pour la Valorisation des Activités Aquacoles et Maritimes |
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| EVI | Environmental Vulnerability Index |
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| EVI | Ecological Valuation Index |
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| EVO-DEVO | Evolutionary Developmental Biology |
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| EwE | Ecopath with Ecosim |
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| EWO | Environmental Watch Organization (Jamaica) |
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| EWT | Endangered Wildlife Trust (UK) |
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| EWT | Environmental Walk-Through |
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