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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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I | J | K
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U | V | W
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| P.L. | Public Law |
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| P2P | Peer to Peer |
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| PA | Public Affairs |
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| PA | Poverty Alleviation (re: effects on biodiversity) |
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| PA | Photoactivation |
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| PA | Planch'Alizé (Reunion) |
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| PA | Precautionary Approach |
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| PA&E | Program Analysis and Evaluation (NOAA) |
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| PacFIN | Pacific Coast Fisheries Information Network |
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| PacIOOS | Pacific Islands Integrated Ocean Observing System |
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| PacIOOS | Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System |
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| PaCIS | Pacific Climate Information System |
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| PacMARA | Pacific Marine Analysis and Research Association |
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| PACN | Pacific Island Network |
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| PaCOOS | Pacific Coast Ocean Observing System (of the California current Large Marine Ecosystem) |
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| PACRC | Pacific Aquaculture and Coastal Resource Center |
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| PACS | Pan American Climate Studies |
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| PADDD | Protected Area Downgrading, Downsizing, and Degazettement |
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| PADI | Professional Association of Diving Instructors |
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| PAFP | Photoactivatable Fluorescent Protein |
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| PAGDSS | The Protected Area Gap Decision Support System |
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| PAGIS | Protected Areas GIS |
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| PAH | Polycylic Aromatic Hydrocarbon |
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| PAHO | Pan American Health Organization |
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| PAM | Pulse Amplitude Modulation |
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| PAMB | Protected Area Management Board |
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| PAME | Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment |
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| PAMs | Policies and measures |
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| PAN | Protected Areas Network |
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| PAO | Pacific Area Office |
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| PAR | Photosynthetically Active Radiation |
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| PARADIGM | PARtnership for Advancing Interdisciplinary Global Modeling |
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| PARB | Protected Areas and Resources Branch (NCCOS/NOAA) |
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| PARC | Palmyra Atoll Research Consortium |
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| PARC | Protected Areas Conservation |
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| PART | Program Assessment Rating Tool |
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| PASTA | Pacific/Atlantic Sea Turtle Assessment |
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| PAT | Program Assessment Team |
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| PATOMAC | Programa de Aprendizaje Técnico en mediciones del Medio Ambiente Costero para América Latina y el Caribe |
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| PATT | Priority Area Task Team (NOAA) |
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| PB | Petabyte |
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| PBDC | Pacific Basin Development Council |
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| PBDEs | Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers |
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| PBHMP | Piti Bomb Holes Marine Preserve (Guam) |
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| PBIF | Pacific Biodiversity information Forum |
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| PBIN | Pacific Basin Information Node (NBII) |
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| PBP | Phycobiliprotein |
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| PBPA | Portland Bight Protected Area |
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| PBR | Potential Biological Removal |
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| PBRC | Pacific Biosciences Research Center (UH) |
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| PCA | Principal Components Analysis |
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| PCAST | President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology |
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| PCB | Polychlorinated biphenyl |
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| PCC | Palau Community College |
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| PCE | Perchloroetene |
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| PCF | Philippe Cousteau Foundation |
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| PCFMP | Precious Corals Fishery Management Plan |
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| PCIC | Paired Comparisons Information Criteria |
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| PCMUS | Precious Corals Management Unit Species |
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| PCO | Program Coordination Office (NOAA) |
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| pCO2 | Partial Pressure of Carbon Dioxide |
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| PCOC | Photorespiratory Carbon Oxidation Cycle |
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| PCP | Peridinim Chlorophyll a Protein |
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| PCPT | Precious Corals Plan Team |
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| PCR | Polymerase Chain Reaction |
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| PCRA | Participatory Coastal Resource Assessment |
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| PCRF | Palau Coral Reef Foundation |
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| PCRF | Planetary Coral Reef Foundation |
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| PCS | Palau Conservation Society |
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| PCSP | Permanent Commission for the South Pacific |
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| PCSU | Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit |
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| PDA | Primary Data Archive (BOLD) |
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| PDB | Protein Data Bank |
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| PDC | Personal Dive Computer |
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| PDC | Pacific Disaster Center |
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| PDM | Program Decision Memorandum |
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| PDO | Pacific Decadal Oscillation |
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| PDWG | Pathology of Diseases Working Group (Coral Health and Disease in the Pacific Workshop) |
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| PDZA | Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium |
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| PEAC | Pacific ENSO Applications Center |
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| PEARL | Pacific Equatorial Atoll Research Laboratory |
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| PEEN | Pan-European Ecological Network |
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| PEET | Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy |
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| PEFMP | Pelagic Ecosystem Fishery Management Plan |
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| PEG | Pew Environment Group |
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| PEGASUS | An ocean current profiling system (not an acronym) |
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| PEI | Princeton Environmental Institute |
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| PEIN | Pacific Environment Information Network |
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| PEIS | Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement |
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| PEM | Pressure Equalized Module |
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| PEMSEA | Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia |
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| PERMANOVA | Permutational Multivariate Analysis of Variance |
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| PERSGA | Regional Organization for the Conservation of the Environment of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden; Program of the Environment of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden |
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| PES | Payments for Ecosystem Services |
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| PES | Progressive Environmental Solutions (Bonaire) |
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| PET | Potential Evapotranspiration |
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| PETM | Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum |
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| PFAD | Personal (or Private) Fish Aggregation Device |
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| PFB | Parrotfish Bite |
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| PFD | Photon Flux Density |
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| PFEG | Pacific Fisheries Environmental Group (NOAA) |
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| PFEL | Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory (NOAA) |
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| PFFA | Palau Federation of Fishing Association (Palau) |
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| PFMC | Pacific Fishery Management Council |
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| PFMP | Pelagic Fishery Management Plan |
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| PFRU | Peninsular Florida Recovery Unit |
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| PFSST | Oceans Pathfinder Program |
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| PGC | Plankton Grouping Code (NOAA) |
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| PGCE | Postgraduate Certificate in Education |
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| PGEM | Maritime Area Management Plan (Moorea) |
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| PGRFA | Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture |
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| PHA | Pearl and Hermes Atoll |
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| PHCRT | Potentially Harvested Coral Reef Taxa |
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| PHLP | Pearl Harbor Legacy Project |
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| PHM | Predictive Habitat Model |
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| PHMR | Port Honduras Marine Reserve (Belize) |
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| PHNSY | Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard |
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| PhOD | Physical Oceanography Division (NOAA/AOML) |
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| PHR | Pearl and Hermes Reef |
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| PHS | Priority Habitats and Species Program (WDFW) |
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| PI | Point Intercept |
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| PI | Principal Investigator |
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| PI | Probability of Identity |
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| PI GOOS | Pacific Island GOOS |
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| PIAO | Pacific Islands Area Office |
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| PIBHMC | Pacific Islands Benthic Habitat Mapping Center (NOAA/SOEST) |
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| PIC | Pacific Island Country |
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| PIC | Partners in Conservation |
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| PICCVL | Pacific Islands Climate Change Virtual Library (NOAA) |
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| PICRC | Palau International Coral Reef Center |
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| PICTs | Pacific Island Countries and Territories |
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| PIER | Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk |
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| PIER | Pfleger Institute of Environmental Research |
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| PIERC | Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center (USGS) |
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| PIFG | Pacific Islands Fisheries Group |
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| PIFSC | Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (NOAA) |
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| PIFSC-CRED | Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center's Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (NOAA) |
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| PII | Pacific Invasives Initiative |
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| PILN | Pacific Invasives Learning Network |
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| PIMPAC | Pacific Islands Marine Protected Area Community; Pacific Islands Managed and Protected Area Community (NOAA) |
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| PIMRIS | Pacific Islands Marine Resources Information System |
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| PIMS | Perry Institute for Marine Science |
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| PIN | Pacific Island network |
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| PINWF | Pine Island National Wildlife Refuge |
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| PIP | Phoenix Islands Protected Area (Republic of Kiribati), also PIPA |
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| PIPA | Phoenix Islands Protected Area (Republic of Kiribati): also PIP |
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| PIPS | Precision Ion Polishing System |
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| PIR | Protein Information Resource |
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| PIR | Pacific Islands Region (NOAA) |
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| PIR-PSD | PIR-International Protein Sequence Database |
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| PIRO | Pacfic Islands Regional Office (NOAA) |
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| PIRS | NOAA Program Information Reporting System |
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| PISCES | Population Interdependencies in the South China Sea project |
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| PISCO | Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans |
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| PISM | Pacific Invasives Initiative |
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| PIT | Passive Integrated Transponder |
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| PIWI | Pacific Island Watershed Institute |
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| PJAC | Pet Joint Advisory Council |
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| PKO | Protect Kaho‘olawe Ohana |
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| PLA | Participatory, Learning and Action |
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| PLB | Personal Locator Beacon |
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| PLF | Pingo-like-feature |
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| PLMR | Protected Living Marine Resource |
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| PLoS | Public Library of Science |
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| PLTX | Palytoxin |
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| PlyMBODy | Plymouth Marine Bio-Optical Databuoy |
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| PM | Particulate Matter |
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| PM | Project Manager |
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| PMA | President's Management Agenda |
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| PMCC | Pacific Marine Conservation Council |
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| PMEL | Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (NOAA) |
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| PML | Plymouth Marine Laboratory |
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| PMN | Phytoplankton Monitoring Network |
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| PMNM | Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument |
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| PMO | Project Management Office |
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| PMO-COREMAP | Project Management Office - Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Project |
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| PMP | Preliminary Management Plan |
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| PMRI | Pacific Marine Resources Institute (CNMI) |
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| PMT | Project Management Team (NOAA) |
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| PMUS | Pelagic Management Unit Species |
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| PN | Pseudo-Nitzschia |
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| PNA | Parties to the Nauru Agreement |
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| PNA | Peptide Nucleic Acid |
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| PNAOCI | Colombian Environmental Ocean, Insular and Coastal Zones Policy |
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| PNAS | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) |
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| PNG | Papua-New Guinea |
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| PNIC | Cocos Island National Park (Costa Rica) |
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| PNIC | Parque Nacional Isla Contoy (Mexico) |
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| PNK | Putri Naga Komodo (a not-for-profit company in Indonesia) |
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| PNR | Pacuare Nature Reserve (Costa Rica) |
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| PNRC | Palau Natural Resources council |
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| PNUD | Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarollo; United Nations Program for Development (UNDP) |
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| PNW | Pacific Northwest |
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| PO.DAAC | NASA JPL/Caltech Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center |
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| POAMA | Predictive Ocean Atmosphere Model for Australia |
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| POC | Picciolo Ocean Consultants |
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| POC | Physical Oceanography and Climate Committee (PICES) |
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| POC | Point of Contact |
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| POES | Polar Operational Environmental Satellite (NOAA) |
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| POGO | Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans |
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| PokMasWas | Community Groups Supervisors (Indonesia) |
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| POL | Pacific Oceanographic Laboratory (NOAA) |
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| POM | Princeton Ocean Model |
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| POP | Persistent Organic Pollutant |
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| POP | Program Operation Plan |
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| POP | Pelagic Observer Program |
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| POR | Protect Our Reef (Florida) |
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| PORF | Pacific Ocean Research Foundation |
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| PORTS | Physical Oceanographic Real-Time System (NOAA) |
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| POSIDIN | Portal for Oceanographic Services for IOOS Data and information |
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| POST | Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking Project |
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| pp | primer pair |
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| PP- CII | Pacific Plan of the Cooperative Island Initiative for Invasive Species |
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| PPA | Pollution Prevention Act |
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| PPB | Parts Per Billion |
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| PPBES | Planning, Programming, Budgeting, Execution System (NOAA) |
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| PPDRDG | Provisional Peoples' Democratic Republic of Diego Garcia |
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| PPE | Palau Pacific Energy, Inc. |
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| PPI | Program Planning and Integration (NOAA) |
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| PPi | Pyrophosphate |
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| PPM | Parts per Million |
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| PPMV | Parts per Million by Volume |
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| PPO | Prophenolixidase |
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| PPT | Parts per Thousand |
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| PPWG | Physiology & Pathology Working Group (Coral Health and Disease in the Pacific Workshop) |
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| PQ | Plastoquinone |
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| PR | Protected Resources |
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| PR | Puerto Rico |
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| PR | Patch Reef |
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| PR | Private Reserve |
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| PRA | Paperwork Reduction Act |
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| PRBD | Protected Resources and Biodiversity Division (SEFSC/NOAA) |
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| PRCZMP | Puerto Rico Coastal Zone Management Program |
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| PRD | Protected Resources Division (NMFS/NOAA) |
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| PRDNER | Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources |
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| PREB | Pacific Region Executive Board |
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| PREL | Pacific Resources for Education and Learning |
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| PRFC | Pacific Rim Fisheries Conference |
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| PRIAs | Pacific Remote Island Areas |
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| PRICIP | Pacific Region Integrated Climatology Information Products (NOAA) |
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| PRIME | Plastics Removal in Marine Environment (DoD) |
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| PRIMENet | Park Research & Intensive Monitoring of Ecosystems Network |
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| PRIMNM | Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument |
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| PRiMO | Pacific Risk Management 'Ohana |
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| PRISM | Puget Sound Regional Synthesis Model |
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| PROARCA | Regional Environment Project for Central America |
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| PROCFish | Pacific Regional Oceanic and Coastal Fisheries |
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| PROCFish/C | PROCfish Coastal Project |
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| PROP | Pacific Regional Ocean Partnership |
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| PS | Program Support |
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| PS | Project Seahorse |
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| PSA | Phycological Society of America |
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| PSA | Public Service Announcement |
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| PSA | Pacific Science Association |
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| PSAI | Pacific Science Association Intercongress |
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| PSC | Pacific Services Center (NOAA) |
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| PSC | Pacific Science Congress |
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| PSC | Pacific Salmon Commission |
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| PSD | Protein Sequence Database |
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| PSD | Protected Species Division (NOAA) |
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| PSG | Professional Specialty Group (NOAA) |
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| PSI | Photosystem I |
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| PSI | Pacific Science Inter-congress |
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| PSI | Protein Structure Initiative |
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| PSI | Pounds per Square Inch |
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| PSII | Photosystem II |
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| PSMFC | Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission |
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| PSMP | Public Sector Modernization Programme (Jamaica) |
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| PSP | Protected Species Program |
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| PSP | Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning |
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| PSSA | Particularly Sensitive Sea Area |
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| PST | Paralytic Shellfish Toxin |
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| PSU | Pennsylvania State University |
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| PSU | Primary Sampling Unit |
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| PSU | Prince of Songkla University (Thailand) |
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| PSU | Portland State University |
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| PSU | Practical Salinity Units |
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| PSZ | Protected Species Zone |
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| PTGS | Prostaglandin-Endoperoxide Synthase |
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| PTM | Particulate Trace Metals |
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| PTP | PicoTiterPlate |
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| PTWC | Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (NOAA) |
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| PUFA | Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid |
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| PUSWD | Porites Ulcerative White Spot Disease |
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| PUWS | Porites ulcerative white spot Disease |
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| PV | Plan Vivo |
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| PVA | Population Viability Analysis |
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| PVC | Polyvinyl chloride |
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| PVDF | Polyvinylidene Fluoride |
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| PVDF | Polyvinyldiene Difluoride |
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| PWC | Personal Water Craft |
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| PWR-HNL | Pacific West Region- Honolulu |
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| PWRO | Pacific West Regional Office |
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| PYC | Pacific Youth Council |
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| PYOCR | Pacific Year of the Coral Reef |
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| PZA | Penghu Zooxanthellae Association |
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