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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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D | E | F
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| ha | Hectare |
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| HAAP | High-Altitude Aerial Photograph |
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| HAB | Harmful Algal Bloom |
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| HAB | Habitat Program (NOAA) |
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| HAB Programme | Harmful Algal Bloom Programme (IOC/UNESCO) |
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| HAB-S | Harmful Algal Blooms Section (PICES) |
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| HABARB | Harmful Algal Blooms and Analytical Response Branch (NCCOS/NOAA) |
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| HABCAM | Habitat Mapping Camera System |
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| HabITS | Habitat Information Tracking System |
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| HABSOS | Harmful Algal Blooms Observing System |
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| HACCP | Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point |
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| HAN | Harmful Algae News (IOC/UNESCO) |
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| HAPC | Habitat Area of Particular Concern |
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| HAS | Hawaii Audubon Society |
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| HAT | Histone Acetyltransferase |
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| HAZMAT | Hazardous Materials |
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| HAZWOP | Hazardous Waste Operations |
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| HAZWOPER | Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response Standard |
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| HBOI | Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution |
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| HBS | Hawaii Biological Survey |
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| HC | Habitat Conservation |
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| HC | Habitat Committee |
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| HC | Hard Coral |
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| HC | Heat content |
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| HCD | Habitat Conservation Division |
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| HCFC | Hydrochlorofluorocarbon |
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| HCMR | Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (Greece) |
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| HCMR | Hol Chan Marine Reserve (Belize) |
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| HCN | Hydrogen Cyanide |
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| HCN | Historical Climate Network |
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| HCP | Habitat Conservation Plan |
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| HCRI | Hawaii Coral Reef Initiative |
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| HCRI-RP | Hawaii Coral Reef Initiative-Research Program |
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| HCRIB | Hawaii Coral Reef Initiative Computer Interactive Bibliography |
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| HCSS | Habitat Conservation Scientific Services (FWC Florida) |
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| HDAC | Histone Deacetylase |
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| HDAR | Hawaii Division of Aquatic Resources |
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| HDF | Hierarchical Data Format |
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| HDF-SDS | Hierarchical Data Format - Scientific Data Set |
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| HEA | Habitat equivalency analysis |
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| HEAR | Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project |
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| HEART | Help Endangered Animals - Ridley Turtles |
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| HECO | Hawaiian Electric Company Inc. |
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| HEPA | High Efficiency Particle Attenuator |
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| HERMES | Hotspot Ecosystem Research on the Margins of European Seas |
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| HERMIONE | Hotspot Ecosystem Research and Man’s Impact on European Seas |
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| HEW | Health, Education, and Welfare |
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| HF | High Frequency |
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| HFC | Hydrofluorocarbons |
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| HFO | Honolulu Forecast Office (NWS/NOAA) |
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| HHS | Department of Health and Human Services |
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| HHT | Husbandry, Handling, and Transport (MAC) |
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| HI | Hawaii |
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| HIHWNMS | Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine sanctuary (NOAA) |
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| HIMAG | Hawaii Marine Algae Group |
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| HIMB | Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology (UHI) |
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| HINWR | Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge |
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| HiOOS | Hawaii Ocean Observing System |
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| HIPAA | Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act |
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| HIR | humoral immune response |
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| HIR | Hawaiian Islands Reserve |
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| HIRS | Heron Island Research Station |
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| HIWG | Hawaii Interagency Coral Reef Mitigation Working Group |
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| HKMCS | Hong Kong Marine Conservation Society |
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| HL | Hydrology Laboratory (NOAA) |
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| HLIP | High Light Induced Protein |
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| HLLE | Head and Lateral Line Erosion |
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| HLOP | Hawaii Longline Observer Program |
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| HMAP | History of Marine Animal Populations |
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| HML | Hollings Marine Laboratory (NOAA) |
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| HMP | Habitat Matching Program |
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| HMRD | Hazardous Materials and Response Division (NOAA) |
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| HMRFS | Hawaiian Marine Recreational Fishery Survey |
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| HMRG | Hawaii Mapping and Researcg Group |
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| HMS | Highly Migratory Species |
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| HMSRP | Hawaii Monk Seal Recovery Plan |
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| HMSRT | Hawaiian Monk Seal Recovery Team |
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| HMT | Hybrid Mapping Tool |
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| HNIS | Harmful Non-Indigenous Species Database (Hawaii) |
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| HNL | Honolulu |
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| HNLC | High Nutrient, Low Chlorophyll |
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| Ho | Null Hypothesis |
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| HOMRC | Hawaii Ocean and Marine Resources Council |
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| HOST | Hawaii Ocean Safety Team |
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| HOTO | Health of the Oceans |
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| HOTS | Hawaii Ocean Time Series |
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| HP | Habitat Program |
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| HPCC | High Performance Computing and Communications |
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| HPDD | High Pressure Directional Drilling |
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| HPLC | High Performance Liquid Chromatography |
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| HPO | Historic Preservation Office (RMI) |
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| HPRD | Habitat and Protected Resource Division (NMFS/NOAA) |
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| HPU | Hawaii Pacific University |
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| HQ | Headquarters |
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| HRI | Healthy Reefs for Healthy People Initiative |
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| HRI | Harte Research Institute |
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| HROV | Hybrid Remotely Operated Vehicle |
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| HRPT | High Resolution Picture Transmission |
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| HRS | Hawaii Revised Statute |
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| HS | High Seas |
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| HSC | Division of Habitat and Species Conservation (FWC Florida) |
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| HSC | Hazardous Substances Committee (OSPAR) |
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| HSCN | Thiocyanic Acid |
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| HSD | Honestly Significant Difference (as in Tukey HSD Test) |
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| HSF | Hawaii Scale Feet |
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| HSF | Heat Shock Factor |
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| HSI | Habitat Suitability Index |
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| HSL | Hazardous Substance List |
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| HSMB | High School Marine Biology Program (Shedd Aquarium) |
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| HSPs | Heat Shock Proteins |
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| HURL | Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory |
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| HWF | Hawaii Wildlife Fund |
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| HWU | Heriot-Watt University (Scotland) |
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| HYCOM | HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model |
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