ACRONYMS

Table 1: Acronyms of Organizations, Manufacturers and Products

ACRONYM	DESCRIPTION	URL-email
CNR	Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche	www.cnr.it
ISMAR	Istituto di Scienze Marine	www.bo.ismar.cnr.it
LDEO	Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory	www.ldeo.columbia.edu
IFREMER	Inst.Francaise Exploitation Mer	www.ifremer.fr
IFG	Institute for Geosciences Kiel University	www.gpi.uni-kiel.de
DES	Dept.Earth Sciences Cardiff University	www.earth.cardiff.ac.uk/
DSC	Dipartimento Scienze della Terra	www.uniroma1.it
SGS	Saudi Geological Survey	www.sgs.org.sa/
SCU	Suez Canal Univ., Geol.Dept.	www.suez.edu.eg
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
SEG	Soc. of Exploration Geophysicists	www.seg.org
UNESCO	United Nations Scient. and cultural org.	www.unesco.org
GPS-DGPS-RTK	Global Positioning System	samadhi.jpl.nasa.gov
DTM	Digital Terrain Model	en.wikipedia.org
GEBCO	General Bathym.Chart Oceans	www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/gebco
SRTM	Shuttle Radar Topogr.Mission	www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/
DIC	Dissolved Inorganic carbon
ETAAS	Electrothermal Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer
FEP	Fluorinated ethylene polypropylene
ICPAES	Inductively-Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometer
ICPMS	Inductively Coupled Plasma - Mass Spectrometry
HDPE	High density polyethylene
MBES	MULTIBEAM ECHOSOUNDER SYSTEM
MCS	Multichannel Seismic
REE	Rare Earth Elements
RSDW	Red Sea Deep Water
SBP	Sub Bottom Profiling
XBT	Expendable BathyTermograph	www.sippican.com
RESON	Reson	www.reson.it
COMM-TECH	Communication Technology	www.comm-tec.com
NEPTUNE	Simrad MBES Software	www.kongsberg-simrad.com
CARAIBES	Traiment Cartographique Batimetrie	www.ifremer.fr/dnis_esi
MB-SYSTEM	MB-SYSTEM	www.ldgo.columbia.edu/MB-System
GMT	Generic Mapping Tool	gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt
GNU,GPL	GNU is not Unix,General Pub. License	www.gnu.org