ACRONYMS

Table 1: Acronyms of Organizations, Manufacturers and Products

ACRONYM	DESCRIPTION	URL-email
PNRA	Progetto Nazionale Ricerche in Antartide	www.pnra.it
CNR	Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche	www.cnr.it
RAS	Russian Academy of Sciences	www.ras.ru
ISMAR	Istituto di Scienze Marine	www.bo.ismar.cnr.it
GIN-RAS	Geological Inst., Moscow	www.ginras.ru
SIO-UCSD	Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UCSD	www.sio.ucsd.edu
UNCW	Univ. of North Carolina Wilmington	www.uncw.edu
LDEO	Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs., Columbia Univ.	www.ldeo.columbia.edu
UCSD	Univ.California S.Diego	www.ucsd.edu
NSF	National Science Foundation	www.nsf.gov
CEA-CNRS	Commissariat Energie Atomique, CNRS	www.cea.fr
CNRS	Centre National Reserche Scientifique	www.cnrs.fr
NSTU	Nizhny Novgorod state technical university	www.nntu.sci-nnov.ru
SIO	Shirshov Institute of Oceanology	www.sio.rssi.ru/index_en.htm
UNIMODENA	Univ. Modena	www.unim.it
UNIROMA	Univ Roma "La Sapienza"	www.uniroma.it
INGV	Ist.Naz.Geofisisica e Vulcanologia	www.ingv.it
IGEM-RAS	Institute Geology Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy and Geochemystry	www.igem.ru/igem/
ORMSP	Ocean Ridge Multibeam Synthesis Project	ocean-ridge.ldeo.columbia.edu
IAGA	Int.Ass.of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy	www.iugg.org/IAGA/
IGRF	Int.Geomagnetic Reference Field	www.ngdc.noaa.gov/IAGA/vmod/
INTERMAGNET	INTErn.Real-time MAGnetic Obs.NETwork	www.intermagnet.org
GEBCO	General Bathym.Chart Oceans	www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/gebco
SGM	Satellite Gravity Maps	topex.ucsd.edu
SEG	Soc. of Exploration Geophysicists	www.seg.org
POR	(Eulerian) Pole of Rotation	encyclopedia.jrank.org/POL_PRE
SWIR	South Western Indian Ridge
FZ	Fracture Zone
ABFZ	Andrew Bain FZ
DTFZ	Du Toit Fracture Zone
MFZ	Marion Fracture Zone
PEFZ	Prince Edward Fracture Zone
RTI	Ridge Transform Intersection
MAR	Mid Atlantic Ridge
MBES	MULTIBEAM ECHOSOUNDER SYSTEM
MCS	Multichannel Seismic
SBP	Sub Bottom Profiling
SVP	Sound Velocity Profile
CTD	Conductivity/Temperature/Depth
GPS-DGPS-RTK	Global Positioning System	samadhi.jpl.nasa.gov
DTM	Digital Terrain Model	en.wikipedia.org
RESON	Reson	www.reson.com
EDGETECH	Edgetech	www.edgetech.com
MARINE MAGNETICS	Marine Magnetics	www.mm.com
COMM-TEC	Communication Technology	www.comm-tec.com
NEPTUNE	Simrad MBES Software	www.kongsberg-simrad.com
MB-SYSTEM	MB-SYSTEM	www.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/pi/MB-System/
GMT	Generic Mapping Tool	gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt
GNU,GPL	GNU is not Unix,General Pub. License	www.gnu.org