NODC Project Code List This file contains a list of projects and the associated codes that are used by various data formats and the World Ocean Database (WOD). The list is sorted by project name/acronym, records that do not have a name (acronym only) sort out at the end of the list. This list was generated from the NODC Authority Tables. NODC Acronym Name /WOD Code 449 ARCHES ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGES STUDIES PROGRAM 185 ABCS ABYSSAL BOUNDARY CURRENT STUDIES 377 ACID RAIN 387 ARC AGULHAS RETROFLECTION CRUISE 696 ASTTEX Agulhas-South Atlantic Thermohaline Transport Experiment 632 A Line 227 AMASSEDS AMAZON SHELF SEDIMENT STUDY 373 ANATOMY OF GULF STREAM MEANDERS 441 ALBATROSS Antarctic Large-scale Box Analysis and the Role of the Scotia Sea 206 AMERIEZ Antarctic Marine Ecosystem Research at the Ice Edge Zone 754 AMLR Antarctic Marine Living Resources 414 APIS Antarctic Pack Ice Seals 124 ANTILLES CURRENT 568 Approche Integree Golfe De Gascogne 379 ARABESQUE 528 AREX ARctic EXperiment 1994 685 AGAVE Arctic Gakkel Vents Expedition 75 AIDJEX Arctic Ice Dynamics Joint Experiment 393 AIWEX ARCTIC INTERNAL WAVE EXPERIMENT 711 AON Arctic Observing Network 434 Arctic Ocean Section (Canada/U.S. joint expedition) 169 APEX ARCTIC POLYNYA EXPERIMENT 639 ASOF Arctic/Subarctic Ocean Fluxes 689 ARCSS-PP Arctic System Science Primary Production 518 ARGO AUSTRALIA 505 ARGN ARGO-GREENLAND PROJECT 520 J-ARGO ARGO JAPAN 516 ARGO MAURITIUS 522 ARGO MEXICO 515 ARGO UK 318 ARKTIS ARK-II_3 388 ARLINDO CIRCULATION 389 ARLINDO MIXING 437 Argo Array for Real-time Geostrophic Oceanography 617 ADIOS Asian Dust Input to the Oceanic System 507 ACCE ATLANTIC CIRCULATION AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENT 429 ACCP ATLANTIC CLIMATE CHANGE PROGRAM 648 ALTEX Atlantic Layer Tracking Experiment 171 AJAX Atlantic Long Line (AJAX) Expeditions 619 AMT Atlantic Meridional Transect Program 10 ARSLOE Atlantic Remote Sensing Land/Ocean Experiment (NODC/F181) 409 Atlantic Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (AtlantNIRO) fisheries research 63 ATEX Atlantic Tradewind Experiment 780 ATOMIC Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign 24 AMOS Automatic Meteorological Observing System 371 APES Autonomous Pinneped Environmental Sampler 608 Azov-Black Sea Scientific Fishery Expedition 360 BALMON Baltic Monitoring 587 BALTIMORE HARBOR STUDY 2 BOMEX Barbados Oceanographic and Meteorological Experiment 7 BARSTUR Barking Sands Tactical Underwater Tracking Range 531 Beach Watch 684 Beaufort Sea Mesoscale Circulation Study 166 BEAUFORT SEA MONITORING PROGRAM 496 ETOBB BEAUTEMPS BEAUPRE ETO (TECHNICAL AND OPERATIONAL EVALUATION) CRUISE 304 BEST BENGUELA SOURCES and TRANSPORT 246 BERPAC BERING & PACIFIC RUSSIAN/US COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM 426 Bering Sea Circulation 275 BATS BERMUDA ATLANTIC TIME SERIES 321 BOFS BIOGEOCHEMICAL OCEAN FLUX STUDY 532 JGOFS/PROOF BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESSES IN THE OCEAN AND FLUXES 363 BRIE BIOGEOCHEMICAL REACTIONS IN ESTUARIES 241 BIOMASS BIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF MARINE ANTARCTIC SYSTEMS AND STOCKS 297 BWASP BOWHEAD WHALE AERIAL SURVEY PROJECT 93 BRINE DISPOSAL 96 BUCCANEER OIL FIELD 543 BOUSSOLE Buoy for the acquisition of a long-term optical series 712 BOEM - ESP Bureau of Ocean Energy Management - Environmental Studies Program 33 CALCOFI California Cooperative Fisheries Investigation 195 CALIFORNIA OCS MONITORING PROGRAM 601 CATS Canadian Archipelago Throughflow Study 521 CANADIAN ARGO 604 CARINA CARbon dioxide IN the Atlantic Ocean 311 CARIACO CArbon Retention In A Colored Ocean 452 CARICOMP Caribbean Coastal Marine Productivity Program 180 C-SALT CARIBBEAN SHEETS AND LAYER TRANSECT 178 CARIPOL/MARPOLMON CARIPOL Marine Pollution Research and Monitoring Program 603 CEP Caspian Environment Programme 709 CeNCOOS Central and Northern California Ocean Observing System 182 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA CIRCULATION STUDY 466 HARDBOTTOM CHARACTERIZATION OF NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO DEEPWATER HARD BOTTOM COMMUNITIES WITH EMPHASIS ON LOPHELIA CORAL 69 CHESTER RIVER STUDY 523 CHILEAN ARGO 517 CHINA ARGO PROJECT 633 CHINARE Chinese Antarctic and Arctic Research Expedition 699 CSESP Chukchi Sea Environmental Studies Program 497 CICIO CIRCULATION AND CLIMATE OF THE INDIAN OCEAN 356 ZISCH Circulation and Contaminant Fluxes in the North Sea 683 Circulation of the N. Central Chukchi Sea Shelf 425 CIRCPOL Circumpolar Deep Water and the WEst Antarctic Ice Sheet 202 CGS CLIMATE AND GLOBAL CHANGE 606 CDMP Climate Database Modernization Program 485 CLIVAR Climate Variability and Predictability 545 CLIVAR-ECLAT Climate Variability and Predictability-Etudes Climatiques en Atlantique Tropical 499 CIRENE CLIMAT INDIEN RECHERCHE PAR LA MODELISATION NUMERIQUE ET L'EXPERIMENTATION 501 CMGP COASTAL AND MARINE GEOLOGY PROGRAM 235 C-CAP Coastal Change Analysis Program 431 CDIP Coastal Data Information Program 703 CHSD Coastal Hydrodynamics & Sediment Dynamics Program 467 CISNet COASTAL INTENSIVE SITE NETWORK 258 COASTAL JET SEPARATION EXPERIMENT 687 CMO COASTAL MIXING AND OPTICS EXPERIMENT 481 COAST COASTAL OCEAN ADVANCES IN SHELF TRANSPORT 119 CODE COASTAL OCEAN DYNAMICS EXPERIMENT 490 COFS COASTAL OCEAN FORECAST SYSTEM 408 COMPS Coastal Ocean Monitoring and Prediction System 203 COASTAL OCEAN PROGRAM/COASTWATCH 204 COASTAL OCEAN PROGRAM/HABITAT MAPPING 255 CTZ COASTAL TRANSITION ZONE PROGRAM 364 CRETM COLUMBIA RIVER ESTUARINE TURBIDITY MAXIMUM RESEARCH PROGRAM 79 COLUMBIA RIVER PROJECT 102 CCOP/SOPA Committee for Cooperation of Joint Prospecting for Mineral Resources in South Pacific Offshore Areas 710 CORC Consortium on the Ocean’s Role in Climate 510 CONGAS CONTINENTAL GASCOGNE 60 CIM Cooperative Investigations in the Mediterranean 37 CICAR Cooperative Investigations of the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions 325 CINECA Cooperative Investigations of the Northern Part of the Eastern Central Atlantic 400 COOE COOPERATIVE OCEAN OBSERVING EXPERIMENT 31 CSK Cooperative Study of the Kuroshio and Adjacent Regions 274 EQUAPAC Cooperative Survey of the Pacific Equatorial Zone 312 CEAREX COORDINATED EASTERN ARCTIC EXPERIMENT 620 CoRIS Coral Reef Information System 366 CORAL REEF STUDIES 594 CoSMOS-OS CoSMOS-Ocean Salinity 226 COARE COUPLED OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE RESPONSE EXPERIMENT 547 CROHYDRO-HA4 CROHYDRO-HA4 607 AnSlope Cross-Slope Exchanges at the Antarctic Slope Front 460 CIMAR CRUCEROS DE INVESTIGACION CIENTIFICA MARINA 511 DAP DATA ASSIMILATION PROJECT 29 DEEP FREEZE 80 DOMES Deep Ocean Mining and Environmental Study 430 DOVETAIL DEEP OCEAN VENTILATION THROUGH ANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE 123 DEEP-SEA DRILLING 641 DWH Deepwater Horizon oil spill event 487 Deepwater Program: Northern Gulf of Mexico Continental Slope Habitats and Benthic Ecology 602 Delaware and New Jersey Coastal Current Study 589 DECADE Delaware Circulation and Dye Experiment 306 DESOTO CANYON EDDY INTRUSION STUDY 635 DIMES Diapycnal and Isopycnal Mixing in the Southern Ocean 197 EAST BREAKS SHIP OF OPPORTUNITY 103 EAST COAST RIG INST. PROGRAM. 239 EBC EASTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS ACCELERATED RESEARCH INITIATIVE 74 EGMEX Eastern Gulf of Mexico 346 EASTROPIC EASTERN TROPICAL ATLANTIC 273 EASTROPIC Eastern Tropical Pacific 1955 416 EPIC East Pacific Investigation of Climate Processes in the Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere System 548 Ecologie des petits pelagiques du Golfe de Gascogne 643 ECOHAB Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms 549 ECOMARGE ECOsystemes de MARGE continentale 616 TU-BLACK SEA ECOSYSTEM MODELING AS A MANAGEMENT TOOL FOR THE BLACK SEA 631 EcoFOCI Ecosystems and Fisheries-Oceanography Coordinated Investigations 529 EGYPT Eddies and GYres Paths Tracking 332 TOPOGULF Effects of the mid-Atlantic Ridge on the general circulation and its transients at mid-Latitudes 237 EMPEROR SEAMOUNT EXPERIMENT 590 ESI ENVIRONMENTAL SENSITIVITY INDEX 415 GASEXII Equatorial Pacific Air-Sea CO2 Exchange Experiment 106 EPOCS EQUATORIAL PACIFIC OCEAN CLIMATE STUDIES 550 ETAMBOT ETAMBOT 316 EUBEX Eurasian Basin Experiment 552 EUROSTRATAFORM European Margin Strata Formation 534 EUROSTRATAFORMONAL D'ECOLOGI 383 EXXON VALDEZ OIL SPILL 438 EVOS Exxon Valdez Restoration Study 314 FRAM-1 Fine Resolution Antarctic Model 101 FGGE FIRST GLOBAL GARP (Global Atmospheric Research Program) EXPERIMENT 99 FGGE - INDIAN OCEAN FIRST GLOBAL GARP (Global Atmospheric Research Program) EXPERIMENT/INDIAN OCEAN 329 FIBEX FIRST INTERNATIONAL BIOMASS EXPERIMENT 174 FOCI Fisheries-Oceanography Coordinated Investigations 229 FLEX FLADEN GROUND EXPERIMENT 28 FLOOD Fleet Observations of Oceanographic Data 170 FACTS FLORIDA ATLANTIC COASTAL TRANSPORT STUDY 199 FLORIDA STRAITS PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY 495 FLOSTRAL FLOTTEURS DE L'OCEAN AUSTRAL 111 Flower Garden Banks Long-term Monitoring Program 220 FLOW OVER ABRUPT TOPOGRAPHY 445 FANS FLUXES ACROSS NARROW SHELVES 315 FRAM III FRAM III 486 FRESHWATER SWITCHYARD OF THE ARCTIC OCEAN 307 FASINEX FRONTAL AIR-SEA INTERACTION EXPERIMENT 509 FRONTALIS FRONTALIS 453 FRUELA 73 GATE GARP (Global Atmospheric Research Program) Atlantic Tropical Experiment 526 GENERAL FISHERIES RESEARCH 455 GEP&CO Geochemistry, Phytoplankton and Color of the Ocean 627 GCP Global Carbon Project 233 GCRP GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH PROGRAM 702 GEF Patagonia Global Environmental Facility Patagonia 261 GOALS GLOBAL OCEAN ATMOSPHERE LAND SYSTEM 471 GLODAP GLOBAL OCEAN DATA ANALYSIS PROJECT 224 GODAR GLOBAL OCEAN DATA ARCHAEOLOGY AND RESCUE PROJECT 253 GLOBEC International Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics 367 US GLOBEC GLOBal Ocean ECosystems Dynamics 488 GOSUD GLOBAL OCEAN SURFACE UNDERWAY DATA PROJECT 223 GTSPP Global Temperature and Salinity Profile Programme 140 GOM ENDANGERED SPECIES 844 GLOS Great Lakes Observing System 46 GREAT LAKES PROJECT 444 GSP GREENLAND SEA PROJECT 465 GROUNDFISH BOTTOM TRAWL SURVEYS 442 GAK1 Gulf of Alaska - 1 380 GULF OF ALASKA JET 381 GULF OF ALASKA RECIRCULATION STUDY 112 GOWON Gulf Offshore Weather Observing Network (F192) 479 GMAQS GULF OF MEXICO AIR QUALITY STUDY 647 GOMECC Gulf of Mexico and East Coast Carbon 221 GULFCET I Gulf of Mexico Cetacean Project 305 GULFCET II Gulf of Mexico Cetacean Project II 649 Gulf of Mexico Comprehensive Synthetic Based Muds Monitoring Program 136 GULF OF MEXICO CONTINENTAL SLOPE ECOSYSTEM 139 GULF OF MEXICO EAST GULF BENCHMARK STUDIES 77 165 GULF OF MEXICO E. GULF ICHTHYOPLANKTON 5 GMEI Gulf of Mexico Estuarine Inventory 350 GOMEX GULF OF MEXICO EXP0CL 152 GULF OF MEXICO HYDROCARBON. QUALITY CONTROL 137 GULF OF MEXICO MAFLA OCS EPIFAUNA HYDROCARBONS 144 GULF OF MEXICO NOAA/NDBO COOP. DRIFTING BUOY 145 SOOP GULF OF MEXICO NOAA/NMFS SHIP OF OPPORTUNITY 130 GULF OF MEXICO NORTH CONTINENTAL SLOPE STUDY 209 GOOMEX GULF OF MEXICO OFFSHORE OPERATIONS MONITORING EXPERIMENT 125 GULF OF MEXICO PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY 161 GULF OF MEXICO S. TEXAS OCS FISHERIES 160 GULF OF MEXICO SW FLORIDA SHELF BENTHIC COMMUNITIES 157 GULF OF MEXICO SW FLORIDA SHELF HYDROGRAPHY 159 GULF OF MEXICO SW FLORIDA SHELF REG. COMMUNITIES 153 GULF OF MEXICO TRACE METAL QUALITY CONTROL 493 GYROSCOPE GYROSCOPE OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEM 403 HALE ALOHA Hawaii Air-Sea Logging Experiment - A Long-term Oligotrophic Habitat Assessment 404 CRAMP Hawaii Coral Reef Assessment Monitoring Program 470 HCRI HAWAII CORAL REEF INITIATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM 439 HURP Hawaii Undersea Research Program 500 HERACLES HERACLES 192 HEBBLE HIGH ENERGY BENTHIC BOUNDARY EXP. 428 HIGH LATITUDE AERIAL EXPEDITIONS OF 1948 - 1949 308 HIGH LATITUDE DYNAMICS/ARCTIC OCEAN MONITORING 293 HUDSON '70 655 PELAGOS Hydrodynamic and Biogeochemical Processes in the Strait of the Cretan Arc 654 OTRANTO Hydrodynamics and Geochemical Fluxes in the Strait of Otranto 597 Hypoxia Studies in the Northern Gulf of Mexico 236 ICE STATION WEDDELL-1 701 ITP Ice-Tethered Profilers 577 INTERPOL Impact of natural and trawling events on resuspension, dispersion and fate of pollutants 519 INDIAN ARGO 89 INDEX Indian Ocean Experiment 336 INDIGO Indien Gaz Ocean 593 SIEDR Information Systems, Economy, Diagnosis of Resources 378 INNER FRONT 242 ISHTAR INNER SHELF TRANSFER AND RECYCLING 49 IGOSS Integrated Global Ocean Services System 704 IMOS Integrated Marine Observing System 642 IOOS Integrated Ocean Observing System 468 IABP International Arctic Buoy Programme 435 IAPP International Arctic Polynya Programme 592 IBTS International Bottom Trawl Survey 30 ICNAF International Commission for the NW Atlantic Fisheries 39 EASTROLANT International Cooperative Effort Toward Understanding of the Oceanography of the Eastern TROpical atLANTic 3 EASTROPAC International Cooperative Effort Toward Understanding of the Oceanography of the Eastern TROpical PACific 1 ICITA International Cooperative Investigations of the Tropical Atlantic 420 ICITA EQUALANT I INTERNATIONAL COOPERATIVE INVESTIGATIONS OF THE TROPICAL ATLANTIC - EQUATORIAL ATLANTIC I 421 ICITA EQUALANT II INTERNATIONAL COOPERATIVE INVESTIGATIONS OF THE TROPICAL ATLANTIC - EQUATORIAL ATLANTIC II 422 ICITA EQUALANT III INTERNATIONAL COOPERATIVE INVESTIGATIONS OF THE TROPICAL ATLANTIC - EQUATORIAL ATLANTIC III 50 IDOE International Decade of Ocean Exploration 71 IDOE/CUEA INTERNATIONAL DECADE OF OCEAN EXPLORATION / Coastal Upwelling Ecosystems Analysis 87 IDOE/POLYMODE INTERNATIONAL DECADE OF OCEAN EXPLORATION / combination of USSR POLYGON project and US MODE 66 IDOE/CEPEX INTERNATIONAL DECADE OF OCEAN EXPLORATION /Controlled Ecosystem Pollution Experiment 48 IDOE/CICAR INTERNATIONAL DECADE OF OCEAN EXPLORATION / Cooperative Investigations of the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions 59 IDOE/GEOSECS INTERNATIONAL DECADE OF OCEAN EXPLORATION / Geochemical Ocean Section Study 85 IDOE/ISOS/FDRAKE INTERNATIONAL DECADE OF OCEAN EXPLORATION / International Southern Ocean Studies / First Dynamic Response and Kinematics Experiment in the Drake Passage 61 IDOE/MODE INTERNATIONAL DECADE OF OCEAN EXPLORATION / Mid-Ocean Dynamics Experiment 78 IDOE/NORPAX INTERNATIONAL DECADE OF OCEAN EXPLORATION / North Pacific Experiment 177 IDOE/NORPAX/HITIS INTERNATIONAL DECADE OF OCEAN EXPLORATION / North Pacific Experiment / Hawaii-Tahiti Shuttle 47 IFYGL International Field Year for the Great Lakes 25 IIOE International Indian Ocean Expedition 618 INSTANT International Nusantara Stratification and Transport Program 626 IOCCP International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project 557 IYFS International Young Fish Survey 653 INTERREG II INTERREG II - Interreg Ionian 658 INTERREG INTERREG - Interreg N. Aegean 443 IMECOCAL INVESTIGACIONES MEXICANAS DE LA CORRIENTE DE CALIFORNIA 108 Ixtoc 323 JRK JAPAN-CHINA JOINT RESEARCH PROGRAM ON THE KUROSHIO 343 JARE JAPANESE ANTARCTIC RESEARCH EXPEDITION 395 JEXAM JAPAN EXPERIMENT ON ASIAN MONSOON 456 JASMINE Joint Air-Sea Monsoon Interaction Experiment 614 JAFOOS Joint Australian Facility For Ocean Observing Systems 200 JGOFS JOINT GLOBAL OCEAN FLUX STUDY 303 JGOFS/Arabian Sea Joint Global Ocean Flux Study / Arabian Sea Process Study 310 JGOFS/EQPAC JOINT GLOBAL OCEAN FLUX STUDY/EQUATORIAL PACIFIC BASIN STUDY 301 JGOFS HOT Joint Global Ocean Flux Study: Hawaii Ocean Time-series 201 JGOFS/NABE Joint Global Ocean Flux Study - North Atlantic Bloom Experiment 26 JISETA Joint Investigation of Southeastern Tropical Atlantic 638 JOIS Joint Ocean Ice Study 484 JWACS JOINT WESTERN ARCTIC CLIMATE STUDIES 621 KITES Keweenaw Interdisciplinary Transport Experiment in Superior 664 KOREA 500-LINE PROJECT 665 KOREA 501-LINE PROJECT 666 KOREA 601-LINE PROJECT 667 KOREA 602-LINE PROJECT 662 KOREA-JAPAN COOPERATIVE PROJECT 243 KER KUROSHIO EXPLOITATION AND UTILIZATION RESEARCH 489 KERE KUROSHIO EXTENSION REGIONAL EXPERIMENT 475 LIDEX LAGRANGIAN ISOPYCNAL DISPERSION EXPERIMENT 348 LMER LAND-MARGIN ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH 598 LOIS Land-Ocean Interaction Study 324 LINE P 254 LITTLE WINDOW 207 LIVING MARINE RESOURCES STUDY 295 LOREX LOMONOSOV RIDGE EXPERIMENT 173 LONG-RANGE EFFECTS PROGRAM PUGET SOUND 695 LTER Long-Term Ecological Research Program 454 FLOWER GARDENS LONG-TERM MONITORING AT THE EAST AND WEST FLOWER GARDEN BANKS 211 LONG TERM MONITORING EAST-WEST FLOWER GARDEN BANKS 214 LATEX PART C Louisiana-Texas GULF OF MEXICO EDDY CIRCULATION STUDY 188 Louisiana-Texas MARINE ECOSYSTEMS 213 LATEX PART B Louisiana-Texas MISSISSIPPI RIVER PLUME HYDROGRAPHY STUDY 189 LATEX Louisiana-Texas PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY 394 LOWER CHESAPEAKE BAY MONITORING 120 LOW LEVEL WASTE OCEAN DISPOSAL 244 Mamala Bay Study 386 MARATHON 561 MARGES MARGES 126 MIZEX MARGINAL ICE ZONE EXPERIMENT 390 MIZEX-83 MARGINAL ICE ZONE EXPERIMENT-83 391 MIZEX-84 MARGINAL ICE ZONE EXPERIMENT-84 392 MIZEX-87 MARGINAL ICE ZONE EXPERIMENT-87 317 MIZLANT Marginal Sea Ice Zone Atlantic Program 697 MAP Marine Aerosol Production Program 605 CARBOOCEAN IP Marine carbon sources and sinks assessment 433 MERRP Marine Ecological Reserves Research Program 65 MESA-NYB Marine Ecosystems Analysis Project - New York Bight 82 MESA Puget Sound Marine Ecosystems Analysis Project - Puget Sound 657 POSEIDON Marine Environmental Monitoring Forecasting and Information System for Greek Waters 447 MARINE FOOD CHAIN RESEARCH GROUP 38 MGS Marine Geophysical Survey 705 MEOP Marine Mammals Exploring the Oceans Pole to Pole 349 MOCE MARINE OPTICS CALIBRATION EXPERIMENT 22 MAPMOPP Marine Pollution (Petroleum) Monitoring Pilot Project 51 MARMAP Marine Resources Monitoring, Assessment and Prediction 538 MAST II Marine Science and Technology Programme II 553 MAST III - FANS Marine Science and Technology Programme III - Fluxes Across Narrow Shelves 551 MAST II-MTP EUROMARGE-NB Marine Science and Technology Programme II - Mediterranean Targeted Project EUROMARGE-NB 419 MARNET 541 MASTII-MTPI-GEODYME MASTII-MTPI-Geochemistry and Dynamics of the Mediterranean 478 MCH MECHANISMS CONTROLLING HYPOXIA ON THE LOUISIANA SHELF 299 MEDAR/MEDATLAS MEDITERRANEAN DATA ARCHAEOLOGY AND RESCUE 257 MEDDY MEDITERRANEAN EDDY EXPERIMENT 661 MFSPP Mediterranean Forecasting System Pilot Project 504 MFSTEP MEDITERRANEAN FORECASTING SYSTEM: TOWARD ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTION 252 MEDOC Mediterranean Ocean Circulation 566 MTP II - MATER Mediterranean Targeted Project II, MAss Transfer and Ecosystem Response 498 GOODHOPE MERIDIAN AT THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE 714 MOVE Meridional Overturning Variability Experiment 630 BREDDIES Mesoscale vortices meanders in the central portion of the Bransfield Strait - identification and physical biological coupling 565 METRO-MED METRO-MED 230 MECCAS MICROBIAL EXCHANGES AND COUPLING IN COASTAL ATLANTIC SYSTEMS 23 MILOC Military Oceanographic Survey 70 MAFLA Mississippi/Alabama/Florida Area Environmental Study 187 Mississippi-Alabama MARINE ECOSYSTEMS 423 SEDQUAL MMS/Sediment Quality in Depositional Areas of Shelikof Strait and Outermost Cook Inlet 198 MONSOON and SEA-AIR INTERACTION 476 NABOS NANSEN AND AMUNDSEN BASINS OBSERVATIONAL SYSTEM 686 NERRS SWMP National Estuarine Research Reserve System System-wide Monitoring Program 118 NMFS/CURVE NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE/CURVE 570 PNEC National Programme Of Coastal Ecology 573 PNOC National Programme Of Coastal Oceanography 196 NS&T NATIONAL STATUS and TRENDS 36 NAVOCEANO INSHORE SURVEYS 107 NSTS Nearshore Sediment Transport Study 64 NOMES/SEAGRANT New England Offshore Mining Experiment 181 New England Shelf and Slope Program 600 New Jersey Upwelling Experiment 347 NET NIMBUS EXPERIMENT TEAM 596 RTOFS NOAA Real-Time Ocean Forecast System 513 SEAS NOAA Shipboard Environmental Data Acquisition System Program 385 NSSDAC NOAA Shipboard Sensor Data Acquisition 692 NACP North American Carbon Program 405 NASEER North Arabian Sea Environment and Ecosystem Research 193 FRED North Carolina FRONTAL EDDY DYNAMICS Experiment 412 NEGOM Northeastern Gulf of Mexico Physical Oceanographic Program: Chemical Oceanography and Hydrography Study 11 NEMP North East Monitoring Program 205 Northern California COASTAL CIRCULATION STUDY 472 NPEO NORTH POLE ENVIRONMENTAL OBSERVATORY 345 NORTH SEA PROJECT 483 NOWRAMP NORTHWESTERN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS CORAL REEF ASSESSMENT PROGRAM 713 NTAS Northwest Tropical Atlantic Station 164 NOUMEA SOOP NOUMEA SHIP OF OPPORTUNITY 384 NECOP NUTRIENT ENHANCED COASTAL OCEAN PRODUCTIVITY 652 DANUBS Nutrient Management in the Danube Basin and its Impact on the Black Sea 530 OVIDE Observatoire de la variabilite interannuelle et decennale 432 OACES OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE CARBON EXCHANGE STUDY 67 OCEAN DUMPING 68 SKYLAB Oceanic Gamefish Investigations 372 OMEX OCEAN MARGIN EXCHANGE 249 OMP OCEAN MARGINS PROGRAM 536 OAERRE OCEANOGRAPHIC APPLICATIONS TO EUTROPHICATION IN REGIONS OF RESTRICTED EXCHANGE 659 THERMAIKOS Oceanographic study of the Thermaikos Gulf 167 OPTOMA OCEAN PREDICTION THROUGH OBSERVATION MODELING AND ANALYSIS 457 OSAP OCEAN SCIENCE AND PRODUCTIVITY 407 OCEANTAR 95 OTEC OCEAN THERMAL ENERGY CONVERSION 9 OCEAN WEATHER STATION 105 OCS-CENTRAL GULF 90 ONR Office of Naval Research Project 688 Operation Deep Scope 473 OPERATION SEA SCAN 411 ORSOO Oregon State University Remote Sensing Ocean Optics 567 ORSTOM-UR1J - Underwater Mounts 133 OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF BALTIMORE CANYON STUDY 81 OCSEAP OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT PROGRAM 91 OCS-GEORGES BANK OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF - GEORGES BANK 84 OCS-MID ATLANTIC OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF - MID ATLANTIC 94 OCS-SOUTH ATLANTIC OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF - SOUTH ATLANTIC 184 Outer Continental Shelf - Southern California 83 OCS-SOUTH TEXAS OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF - SOUTH TEXAS 351 Overflow '60 88 PARKA Pacific Acoustic Research Kaneohe-Alaska 591 PaCOOS Pacific Coast Ocean Observing System 134 PEQUOD PACIFIC EQUATORIAL OCEAN DYNAMICS 344 POFI PACIFIC OCEAN FISH and INVERTS 492 RIMPAC Pacific Rim Military Exercises 610 PAL-LTER Palmer, Antarctica Long-Term Ecological Research Project 262 PACS PAN AMERICAN CLIMATE STUDIES 708 PESCAR PEgasus in the Sea of Cortez ARea 651 CINCS Pelagic-Benthic Coupling in the Oligotrophic Cretan Sea 640 COUPLING Physical-biological coupling around South Shetland Islands (Antarctica) at the mesoscale range 208 PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY FIELD PROGRAM OFFSHORE NORTH CAROLINA 252 POEM PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY OF THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN 588 PLANKTON ECOLOGY PROJECT 399 PRIME PLANKTON REACTIVITY IN THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT 396 POD 418 PIRATA Prediction and Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic 451 PREDICTION OF WIND-DRIVEN COASTAL CIRCULATION 537 PRIMO PRIMO 98 PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND PROJECT 104 PROBES Processes and Resources of the Bering Sea Shelf 569 PICOLO Production Induite en Zone de Convergence par les Ondes Longues Océaniques 535 PROGRAMME NATIONAL D'ECOLOGI 571 PNTS Programme national de teledetection spatiale 503 POMME PROGRAMME OCEAN MULTIDISCIPLINAIRE MESO ECHELLE 574 Project De Renovation Du SUROIT 362 PSAMP PUGET SOUND AMBIENT MONITORING PROGRAM 595 RAPID Rapid Climate Change programme 693 RECOPESCA 117 REEF FISH POPULATIONS 491 ROFS REGIONAL OCEAN FORECAST SYSTEM 634 RAMA Research Moored Array for African-Asian-Australian Monsoon Analysis and Prediction 300 RESEARCH OF DEEP SEA POLYMETAL SULPHIDES (HYDROTHERMAL ORE FIELDS) 406 ROAVERRS RESEARCH ON OCEAN ATMOSPHERE VARIABILITY & ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE IN ROSS SEA 599 RIOPLA Rio de la Plata Plume Experiment 644 ROSSMIZE Ross Sea Marginal Ice Zone Ecology 260 ROSS SEA POLYNYA PROJECT 376 ROUTINE FISHERIES MONITORING/ASSESSMENT 623 RUSALCA Russian-American Long-term Census of the Arctic 707 SPURS Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study 700 SPOT San Pedro Ocean Time-series 127 SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL 402 SCICEX Scientific Ice Expeditions 52 Sea Grant 319 SIZEX Seasonal Ice Zone Experiment 132 SEQUAL/FOCAL Seasonal Response of the Equatorial Atlantic Experiment/Français Océan et Climat dans l'Atlantique Equatorial 424 SeaWiFS/SIMBIOS Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor/Sensor Intercomparison and Merger for Biological and Interdiciplinary Oceanic Studies 328 SIBEX SECOND INTERNATIONAL BIOMASS EXPERIMENT 302 SECTIONS 369 NEAZO SECTIONS-NEWFOUNDLAND ENERGETIC ACTIVITY POLYGON 368 NAC SECTIONS-NORTH ATLANTIC CURRENTS 375 TEP SECTIONS-TROPICAL ENERGOACTIVITY POLYGON IN ATLANTIC 370 SIMBIOS Sensor Intercomparison and Merger for Biological and Interdisciplinary Oceanic Studies 636 SBI Shelf Basin Interaction Project 461 SHELF & BOTTOM WATER FORMATION NEAR EAST ANTARCTIC POLYNYAS & GLACIERS 576 SEFOS Shelf Edge Fisheries and Oceanographic Studies 622 SAMOS Shipboard Automated Meteorological and Oceanographic System 613 SOOP Ship of Opportunity Programme 506 SODA SIMPLE OCEAN DATA ASSIMILATION 533 SOFIA 401 SEA Sound Ecosystem Analysis 100 SOUTH ATLANTIC BIGHT 216 SAVE South Atlantic Ventilation Experiment 525 SCSMEX South China Sea Monsoon Experiment 121 SEAMAP Southeast Area Monitoring and Assessment Program 802 SECOORA Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association 245 SEFCAR SOUTHEAST FLORIDA AND CARIBBEAN RECRUITMENT PROGRAM 259 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BIGHT EXPERIMENT 77 SCOPE Southern Coastal Plains Expedition 586 SEaOS Southern Elephant Seals as Oceanographic Samplers 715 SOCLIM Southern Ocean and CLIMate Field studies with innovative tools 718 SOCCOM Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling 464 SOIREE SOUTHERN OCEAN IRON ENRICHMENT EXPERIMENT 459 SURVOSTRAL SOUTHERN OCEAN TRANSECT BETWEEN TASMANIA & ANTARCTICA 458 SAE SOVIET ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 448 SPANISH ANTARCTIC RESEARCH PROGRAM 628 ESEOO Spanish System of Operational Oceanography 477 SFB460 SPECIAL RESEARCH RANGE 460 - DYNAMICS THERMOHALINER CIRCULATION FLUCTUATIONS 440 SWSS Sperm Whale Seismic Study 436 CHEMO II Stability and Change in the Gulf of Mexico Chemosynthetic Communities Program 609 State Support of Higher Education and Fundamental Science Integration 248 STATION S 508 STELLER SEA LION RESEARCH 250 STRAITS OF HORMUZ 341 SUZAN Subantarctic Zone Anomalies 397 SAGE SUB-ARCTIC GYRE EXPERIMENT 194 SUPER SUbarctic Pacific Ecosystem Research 251 SUBDUCTION EXPERIMENT 691 SRoF Submarine Ring of Fire 234 SUBSEABED DISPOSAL PROJECT 116 STACS SUBTROPICAL ATLANTIC CLIMATE STUDY 228 SLIX SURFACE BIOLOGICAL OIL SLICK EXPERIMENT 462 SHEBA SURFACE HEAT ENERGY BUDGET OF THE ARCTIC 330 SINODE Surface Indian Ocean Dynamic Experiment 331 SURTROPAC SURFACE TROPICAL PACIFIC FRANCE 469 Survey of Deepwater Currents in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico 247 SEAKEYS Sustained Ecological Research Related to Management of the Florida Keys Seascape 340 SUZIL SUZAN/ANTARSIL 131 SW FLORIDA BENTHOS STUDY 109 S.W. FLORIDA SHELF 232 SYNOP SYNOPTIC OCEAN PREDICTION 682 TOPP Tagging of Pacific Predators 624 UE-VECEP Technical Cooperation Fishing Program 215 TIGER TEXAS INSTITUTIONS GULF ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH PROGRAM 212 LATEX PART A TEXAS-LOUISIANA SHELF CIRCULATION AND TRANSPORT PROCESSES STUDY 706 OOCS The Operational Observatory of the Catalan Sea 128 TRANSPAC Thermal Structure Monitoring Program in the Pacific 446 TOROS TINTO AND ODIEL RIVER OCEAN STUDY 114 TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURES 382 TRANS-ALASKA PIPELINE STUDY 175 TAG TRANS-ATLANTIC GEOTRAVERSE 410 TASC Trans-Atlantic Study of Calanus 172 TTO Transient Tracers in the Ocean Program 417 TAO Tropical Atmosphere Ocean 463 TAO/TRITON Tropical Atmosphere Ocean/TRIANGLE TRANS-OCEAN BUOY NETWORK 231 TIWE TROPICAL INSTABILITY WAVE EXPERIMENT 168 TOGA TROPICAL OCEAN GLOBAL ATMOSPHERE 474 TROPAC TROPICAL PACIFIC 191 TROPIC HEAT 294 TUFT POINT FIS 240 USARP UNITED STATES ANTARCTIC RESEARCH PROGRAM 625 United States Carbon Cycle Science Program 183 UNITED STATES/PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA COOPERATIVE STUDY 502 TROPAT UNTERSUNCHUNGEN ZU ZIRKULATION UND WASSERMASSEN-ANOMALIEN MITPROFILIERENDEN MESSROBOTERN IM TROPISCHEN ATLANTIK 450 UPWELL UPWELLING CRUISE 1969-SEA FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE 514 U.S. ARGO PROJECT 427 US-CHINA COOP US/Chinese Ship-of-Opportunity Sampling Program 527 U.S. CLIVAR U.S. Climate Variability and Predictability Research Program 361 JGOFS/AESOPS US JGOFS ANTARCTIC ENVIRONMENT AND SOUTHERN OCEAN PROCESS STUDY 129 US-USSR WEDDELL POLYNYA EXPEDITION 222 VENTS Vents Program 690 Vieques Sound and Virgin Passage Transport Study 113 WARM CORE RINGS 512 WEN WASSERMASSEN IM EUROPAISCHES NORDMEER 494 WECCON WEDDELL SEA CONVECTION CONTROL 480 WCOS West Coast Observation System 698 WBTS Western Boundary Time Series in the Atlantic Ocean 176 WEPOCS WESTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC OCEAN CIRCULATION STUDY 309 WESTERN GULF OF MAINE RED TIDE SURVEY 320 WESTPAC Western Pacific programme 482 WHAP WEST HAWAII AQUARIUM PROJECT 398 WESTPAC/ICER WESTPAC/ICER 186 WETLANDS LOSS 524 Willapa Bay oyster monitoring 694 WCCWQA Windward Community College Heeia Stream and Kaneohe Bay Water Quality Assessment Project 583 WOCE-CITHER WOCE-CITHER 582 WOCE GUYANA WOCE GUYANA 190 WORLD CLIMATE RESEARCH PROGRAM 225 WOCE World Ocean Circulation Experiment 539 WOCE Confluence World Ocean Circulation Experiment Confluence programme 584 WOCE-ROMANCHE World Ocean Circulation Experiment - ROMANCHE 629 WOOD World-wide Ocean Optics Database 296 YMER '80 353 BLMP/BMP 110 BORAX 45 ESCAROSA I 335 EUMELI 256 FRONTS 342 INPOC 354 IYHS 558 JADE-INDIGO-SINODE 338 JASUS 115 LOTUS 34 MAZATLAN 352 MOVEN 313 NORSEX 357 OPTINOM 337 PHYCEMED 326 PHYGAS 327 PREFIL 359 PRISMA 334 PROPPAC 339 REUNION 358 SKAGEX 62 SKIJUMP 322 SKIPJACK 333 TOURBILLON 355 TUVAS 27 VAMP