| Acronym |
Definition |
| AATAMS |
Australian Animal Tagging And Monitoring System |
| ACOA |
Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency |
| AFSC |
Alaska Fisheries Science Center |
| AIMS |
Australian Institute of Marine Science |
| AOOS |
Alaska Ocean Observing System |
| ASF |
Atlantic Salmon Federation |
| BASC |
Barrow Arctic Science Consortium |
| BIO |
Bedford Institute of Oceanography |
| BIOS |
Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences |
| CADIC-CONICET |
Centro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas |
| CCMAR |
Centro de Ciências do Mar |
| CEQUA |
Centro de Estudios del Cuaternario |
| CFI |
Canada Foundation for Innovation |
| CICESE |
Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada |
| CoML |
Census of Marine Life |
| CONAMA-GEF |
Comisión Nacional del Medio Ambiente - Facilidad Global del Medio Ambiente (Global Environment Facility) |
| CSIRO |
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation |
| DFO |
Fisheries and Oceans Canada |
| ECOSUR |
El Colegio de la Frontera Sur |
| eMII |
electronic Marine Information Infrastructure |
| FMAP |
Future of Marine Animal Populations |
| FURG |
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande |
| FWI |
Freshwater Institute |
| GFC |
Gulf Fisheries Centre |
| GNi |
Grønlands Naturinstitut (Greenland Institute of Natural Resources) |
| GoMOOS |
Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System |
| GOOS |
Global Ocean Observing System |
| HMSC |
Huntsman Marine Science Centre |
| IEO |
Instituto Español de Oceanografía |
| IFREMER |
Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer |
| IMAR-DOP |
Instituto do Mar Departamento de Oceanografía e Pescas |
| INRH |
Institut National de Recherche Halieutique |
| IOC |
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission |
| IODE |
International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange |
| IOOS |
Integrated Ocean Observing System |
| IOS |
Institute of Ocean Sciences |
| IPY |
International Polar Year |
| IRD |
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement |
| KORDI |
Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute |
| MCM |
Marine and Coastal Management |
| MCSI |
Marine Conservation Science Institute |
| MLI |
Maurice Lamontagne Institute |
| MRI |
Marine Research Institute |
| MUN |
Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| NatMIRC |
National Marine Information and Research Centre |
| NEFSC |
Northeast Fisheries Science Center |
| NEPTUNE |
North-East Pacific Time-Series Underwater Networked Experiments |
| NFRDI |
National Fisheries Research and Development Institute |
| NINA |
Norwegian Institute for Nature Research |
| NOAA |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| NPi |
Norsk Polarinstitutt (Norwegian Polar Institute) |
| NSERC |
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada |
| NSF |
U.S. National Science Foundation |
| NYSU |
New York State University |
| OTN |
Ocean Tracking Network |
| PaCOOS |
Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System |
| PBS |
Pacific Biological Station |
| PNUD-GEF |
Programa de la Naciones Undias para el Desarrollo - Facilidad Global del Medio Ambiente (Global Environment Facility) |
| POKM |
Platform for Ocean Knowledge Management |
| POST |
Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking |
| R&D |
Research and Development |
| SABS |
St. Andrews Biological Station |
| SAEON |
South African Environmental Observation Network |
| SAIAB |
South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity |
| SAIB |
Sociedad Argentina de Investigación en Bioquímica y Biología Molecular |
| SEFSC |
Southeast Fisheries Science Centre |
| SIMS |
Sydney Institute of Marine Science |
| SSHRC |
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada |
| SWFSC |
Southwest Fisheries Science Center |
| TOPP |
Tagging of Pacific Predators |
| U |
University |
| UBC |
University of British Columbia |
| UCSC |
University of California Santa Cruz |
| UNB |
University of New Brunswick |
| UNESCO |
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |
| USGS |
United States Geological Survey |
| VENUS |
Victoria Experimental Network Under the Sea |
| WA Fisheries |
Department of Fisheries, Western Australia |
| WHOI |
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
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