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, last modified 02/13/2009.

NODC   Acronym               Name
/WOD
Code

 632                         A Line
 449   ARCHES                ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGES STUDIES PROGRAM
 185   ABCS                  ABYSSAL BOUNDARY CURRENT STUDIES
 377                         ACID RAIN
 387   ARC                   AGULHAS RETROFLECTION CRUISE
 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 ANALYSIS AT THE ICE EDGE ZONE
 414   APIS                  Antarctic Pack Ice Seals
 124                         ANTILLES CURRENT
 568                         Approche Integree Golfe De Gascogne
 379                         ARABESQUE
 303                         ARABIAN SEA PROCESS STUDY
 528   AREX                  ARctic EXperiment 1994
  75   AIDJEX                Arctic Ice Dynamics Joint Experiment
 393   AIWEX                 ARCTIC INTERNAL WAVE EXPERIMENT
 434                         Arctic Ocean Section (Canada/U.S. joint expedition)
 169   APEX                  ARCTIC POLYNYA EXPERIMENT
 518                         ARGO AUSTRALIA
 520   J-ARGO                ARGO JAPAN
 516                         ARGO MAURITIUS
 522                         ARGO MEXICO
 515                         ARGO UK
 505   ARGN                  ARGO-GREENLAND PROJECT
 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
 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
  24   AMOS                  Automatic Meteorological Observing System
 371   APES                  Autonomous Pinneped Environmental Sampler
 608                         Azov-Black Sea Scientific Fishery Expedition 
 587                         BALTIMORE HARBOR STUDY
   2   BOMEX                 Barbados Oceanographic and Meteorological Experiment
 531                         Beach Watch
 166                         BEAUFORT SEA MONITORING PROGRAM
 496   ETOBB                 BEAUTEMPS BEAUPRE ETO (TECHNICAL AND OPERATIONAL EVALUATION) CRUISE
 304   BEST                  BENGUELA SOURCE 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
  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
 603   CEP                   Caspian Environment Programme
 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
 497   CICIO                 CIRCULATION AND CLIMATE OF THE INDIAN OCEAN
 425   CIRCPOL               Circumpolar Deep Water and the WEst Antarctic Ice Sheet
 499   CIRENE                CLIMAT INDIEN RECHERCHE PAR LA MODELISATION NUMERIQUE ET L'EXPERIMENTATION
 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
 501   CMGP                  COASTAL AND MARINE GEOLOGY PROGRAM
 235   C-CAP                 COASTAL CHANGE ANALYSIS PROGRAM
 431   CDIP                  Coastal Data Information Program
 467   CISNet                COASTAL INTENSIVE SITE NETWORK
 258                         COASTAL JET SEPARATION EXPERIMENT
 481   COAST                 COASTAL OCEAN ADVANCES IN SHELF TRANSPORT
 119                         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
 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
 487   DEEPWATER             DEEPWATER PROGRAM: NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO CONTINENTAL SLOPE HABITAT AND BENTHIC ECOLOGY
 602                         Delaware and New Jersey Coastal Current Study
 589   DECADE                Delaware Circulation and Dye Experiment
 306                         DESOTO CANYON EDDY INTRUSION STUDY
 305   GULFCET II            DISTRIBUTION AND ABUNDANCE OF MARINE MAMMALS IN NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO
 221   GULFCET I             DISTRIBUTION/ABUNDANCE OF MARINE MAMMALS IN GULF OF MEXICO
 197                         EAST BREAKS SHIP OF OPPORTUNITY
 103                         EAST COAST RIG INST. PROGRAM.
 416   EPIC                  East Pacific Investigation of Climate Processes in the Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere System
 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
 548                         Ecologie des petits pelagiques du Golfe de Gascogne
 616   TU-BLACK SEA          ECOSYSTEM MODELING AS A MANAGEMENT TOOL FOR THE BLACK SEA -  A REGIONAL PROGRAM OF MULTI INSTITUTIONAL  COOPERATION
 549   ECOMARGE              ECOsystemes de MARGE continentale
 631   EcoFOCI               Ecosystems and  Fisheries-Oceanography Coordinated Investigations
 529   EGYPT                 Eddies and GYres Paths Tracking
 237                         EMPEROR SEAMOUNT EXPERIMENT
 590   ESI                   ENVIRONMENTAL SENSITIVITY INDEX
 111                         EPA/FLOWER GARDENS
 415   GASEXII               Equatorial Pacific Air-Sea CO2 Exchange Experiment
 106   EPOCS                 EQUATORIAL PACIFIC OCEAN CLIMATE STUDIES
 550   ETAMBOT               ETAMBOT
 552   EUROSTRATAFORM        European Margin Strata Formation
 534                         EUROSTRATAFORMONAL D'ECOLOGI
 383                         EXXON VALDEZ OIL SPILL
 438   EVOS                  Exxon Valdez Restoration Study
 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 COOPERATIVE 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
 220                         FLOW OVER ABRUPT TOPOGRAPHY
 445   FANS                  FLUXES ACROSS NARROW SHELVES
 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
 261   GOALS                 GLOBAL OCEAN ATMOSPHERE LAND SYSTEM
 471   GLODAP                GLOBAL OCEAN DATA ANALYSIS PROJECT
 224   GODAR                 GLOBAL OCEAN DATA ARCHAEOLOGY AND RESCUE PROJECT
 374   GLOBEC/OREGON         GLOBAL OCEAN ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS/OREGON PROGRAM
 253   GLOBEC                GLOBAL OCEAN ECOSYSTEMS DYNAMICS
 488   GOSUD                 GLOBAL OCEAN SURFACE UNDERWAY DATA PROJECT
 223   GTSPP                 Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Program
 140                         GOM ENDANGERED SPECIES
  46                         GREAT LAKES PROJECT
 444   GSP                   GREENLAND SEA PROJECT
 465   N/A                   GROUNDFISH BOTTOM TRAWL SURVEYS
 442   GAK1                  Gulf of Alaska - 1
 380                         GULF OF ALASKA JET
 381                         GULF OF ALASKA RECIRCULATION STUDY
 479   GMAQS                 GULF OF MEXICO AIR QUALITY STUDY
 136                         GULF OF MEXICO CONT. SLOPE ECOSYSTEM
 165                         GULF OF MEXICO E. GULF ICHTHYOPLANKTON
 139                         GULF OF MEXICO EAST GULF BENCHMARK STUDIES 77
   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 EXP.
 125                         GULF OF MEXICO PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY
 161                         GULF OF MEXICO S. TEXAS OCS FISHERIES
 440   SWSS                  GULF OF MEXICO SPERM WHALE RESEARCH
 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
 112   GOWON                 Gulf Offshore Weather Observing Network (F192)
 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
 597                         Hypoxia Studies in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
 236                         ICE STATION WEDDELL-1
 577   INTERPOL              Impact of natural and trawling events on resuspension, dispersion and fate of pollutants 
 519                         INDIAN ARGO
  89   INDEX                 Indian Ocean Experiment
 593   SIEDR                 Information Systems, Economy, Diagnosis of Resources
 378                         INNER FRONT
 242   ISHTAR                INNER SHELF TRANSFER AND RECYCLING
  49   IGOSS                 INTEGRATED GLOBAL OCEAN SERVICE SYSTEM
 468                         INTERNATIONAL ARCTIC BUOY BUOY PROGRAM
 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
  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
  66   IDOE/CEPEX            INTERNATIONAL DECADE OF OCEAN EXPLORATION /Controlled Ecosystem Pollution Experiment
  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
 443   IMECOCAL              INVESTIGACIONES MEXICANAS DE LA CORRIENTE DE CALIFORNIA
 395   JEXAM                 JAPAN EXPERIMENT ON  ASIAN MONSOON
 323   JRK                   JAPAN-CHINA JOINT RESEARCH PROGRAM ON THE KUROSHIO
 343   JARE                  JAPANESE ANTARCTIC RESEARCH EXPEDITION
 456   JASMINE               Joint Air-Sea Monsoon Interaction Experiment
 614   JAFOOS                Joint Australian Facility For Ocean Observing Systems
 200   JGOFS                 JOINT GLOBAL OCEAN FLUX STUDY
 365   JGOFS/Arabian Sea     JOINT GLOBAL OCEAN FLUX STUDY / ARABIAN SEA PROCESS STUDIES
 281   JGOFS-NABE            Joint Global Ocean Flux Study-North Atlantic Bloom Experiment
 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/NABS            JOINT GLOBAL OCEAN FLUX STUDY/NORTH ATLANTIC BLOOM SURVEY
  26   JISETA                Joint Investigation of Southeastern Tropical Atlantic
 484   JWACS                 JOINT WESTERN ARCTIC CLIMATE STUDIES
 621   KITES                 Keweenaw Interdisciplinary Transport Experiment in Superior
 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
 211                         LONG TERM MONITORING EAST-WEST FLOWER GARDEN BANKS
 173                         LONG-RANGE EFFECTS PROGRAM PUGET SOUND
 454   FLOWER GARDENS        LONG-TERM MONITORING AT THE EAST AND 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                         Louisiana-Texas PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY
 120                         LOW LEVEL WASTE OCEAN DISPOSAL
 394                         LOWER CHESAPEAKE BAY MONITORING
 244                         MAMALA BAY STUDY
 386                         MARATHON
 561   MARGES                MARGES
 390   MIZEX-83              MARGINAL  ICE ZONE EXPERIMENT-83
 126   MIZEX                 MARGINAL ICE ZONE EXPERIMENT
 391   MIZEX-84              MARGINAL ICE ZONE EXPERIMENT-84
 392   MIZEX-87              MARGINAL ICE ZONE EXPERIMENT-87
 317   MIZLANT               Marginal Sea Ice Zone Atlantic 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 -PS              Marine EcoSystems Analysis Project - PUGET SOUND
 447                         MARINE FOOD CHAIN RESEARCH GROUP
  38   MGS                   Marine Geophysical Survey
 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
 551   MAST II-MTP EUROMARGE-NB    Marine Science and Technology Programme II - Mediterranean Targeted Project  EUROMARGE-NB 
 553   MAST III - FANS       Marine Science and Technology Programme III - Fluxes Across Narrow Shelves
 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
 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
 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
 179                         MID-ATLANTIC SHELF
  23   MILOC                 Military Oceanographic Survey
 187                         Mississippi-Alabama MARINE ECOSYSTEMS
  70   MAFLA                 Mississippi/Alabama/Florida Area Environmental Study
 423   SEDQUAL               MMS/Sediment Quality in Depositional Areas of Shelikof Strait and Outermost Cook Inlet
 198                         MONSOON and SEA-AIR INTERACTION
 398   WESTPAC/ICER          N/A
 476   NABOS                 NANSEN AND AMUNDSEN BASINS OBSERVATIONAL SYSTEM
 118   NMFS/CURVE            NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE/
 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 SHELFand 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
 405   NASEER                North Arabian Sea Environment and Ecosystem Research
 193   FRED                  North Carolina FRONTAL EDDY DYNAMICS Experiment
  11   NEMP                  North East Monitoring Program
 472   NPEO                  NORTH POLE ENVIRONMENTAL OBSERVATORY
 345                         NORTH SEA PROJECT
 412   NEGOM                 Northeastern Gulf of Mexico Physical Oceanographic Program: Chemical Oceanography and Hydrography Study
 205                         Northern California COASTAL CIRCULATION STUDY
 483   NOWRAMP               NORTHWESTERN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS CORAL REEF ASSESSMENT PROGRAM
 164   NOUMEA SOOP           NOUMEA SHIP OF OPPORTUNITY
 384   NECOP                 NUTRIENT ENHANCED COASTAL OCEAN PRODUCTIVITY
 530   OVIDE                 Observatoire de la variabilite interannuelle et decennale
  67                         OCEAN DUMPING
 372   OMEX                  OCEAN MARGIN EXCHANGE
 249   OMP                   OCEAN MARGINS PROGRAM
 167   OPTOMA                OCEAN PREDICTION THROUGH OBSERVATION MODELING AND ANALYSIS
 457   OSAP                  OCEAN SCIENCE AND PRODUCTIVITY
  95   OTEC                  OCEAN THERMAL ENERGY CONVERSION
   9                         OCEAN WEATHER STATION
 432   OACES                 OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE CARBON EXCHANGE STUDY
  68   SKYLAB                Oceanic Gamefish Investigations
 536   OAERRE                OCEANOGRAPHIC APPLICATIONS TO EUTROPHICATION IN REGIONS OF RESTRICTED EXCHANGE
 407                         OCEANTAR
 105                         OCS-CENTRAL GULF
 184                         OCS-SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
  90   ONR                   OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH
 473                         OPERATION SEA SCAN
 411   ORSOO                 Oregon State University Remote Sensing Ocean Optics
 567                         ORSTOM-UR1J - Underwater Mounts
  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
  83   OCS-SOUTH TEXAS       OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF - SOUTH TEXAS
 133                         OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF BALTIMORE CANYON STUDY
  81   OCSEAP                OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT PROGRAM
  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
 208                         PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY FIELD PROGRAM OFFSHORE NORTH CAROLINA
 252   POEM                  PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY OF THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN
 418                         PIRATA BUOY ARRAY
 588                         PLANKTON ECOLOGY PROJECT
 399   PRIME                 PLANKTON REACTIVITY IN THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT
 396                         POD
 396                         POD
 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 Ocaniques
 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                         PUGET SOUND AMBIENT MONITORING PROGRAM
 595   RAPID                 Rapid Climate Change programme
 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
 260                         ROSS SEA POLYNYA PROJECT
 376   N/A                   ROUTINE FISHERIES MONITORING/ASSESSMENT
 623   RUSALCA               Russian-American Long-term Census of the Arctic
 109                         S.W. FLORIDA SHELF
 127                         SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL
 402   SCICEX                Scientific Ice Expeditions
 424   SeaWiFS/SIMBIOS       Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor/Sensor Intercomparison and Merger for Biological and Interdiciplinary Oceanic Studies
  52                         SEAGRANT
 132   SEQUAL/FOCAL          SEASONAL RESPONSE OF THE EQUATORIAL  ATLANTIC EXPERIMENT/FRANCAIS OCEAN ET CLIMAT DANS L'ATLANTIQUE EQUATORIAL
 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
 461   N/A                   SHELF & BOTTOM WATER FORMATION NEAR EAST ANTARCTIC POLYNYAS & GLACIERS
 576   SEFOS                 Shelf Edge Fisheries and Oceanographic Studies
 613   SOT SOOP              Ship-of-Opportunity Programme
 622   SAMOS                 Shipboard Automated Meteorological and Oceanographic System
 506   SODA                  SIMPLE OCEAN DATA ASSIMILATION
 533                         SOFIA
 401   SEA                   Sound Ecosystem Analysis
 100                         SOUTH ATLANTIC BIGHT
 216   SAVE                  SOUTH ATLANTIC VENTILATION EXP.
 525   SCSMEX                South China Sea Monsoon Experiment
 121   SEAMAP                Southeast Area Monitoring and Assessment Program
 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
 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
 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
 194   SUPER                 SUB ARCTIC PACIFIC ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH
 397   SAGE                  SUB-ARCTIC GYRE EXPERIMENT
 251                         SUBDUCTION EXPERIMENT
 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
 331   SURTROPAC             SURFACE TROPICAL PACIFIC FRANCE
 469   N/A                   SURVEY OF DEEP-WATER CURRENTS IN THE EASTERN GULF OF MEXICO
 247   SEAKEYS               SUSTAINED ECOL. RES. RELATED TO MANAGEMENT OF THE FLORIDA KEYS SEASCAPE
 131                         SW FLORIDA BENTHOS STUDY
 232   SYNOP                 SYNOPTIC OCEAN PREDICTION
 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
 493   GYROSCOPE             THE GYROSCOPE OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEM
 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
 463   TRITON                TRIANGLE TRANS-OCEAN BUOY NETWORK
 191                         TROPIC HEAT
 122   TTO                   TROPICAL ATLANTIC STUDY OF TRANSIENT TRACERS IN THE OCEAN
 417   TAO                   Tropical Atmosphere Ocean
 231   TIWE                  TROPICAL INSTABILITY WAVE EXPERIMENT
 168   TOGA                  TROPICAL OCEAN GLOBAL ATMOSPHERE
 474   TROPAC                TROPICAL PACIFIC
 294                         TUFT POINT FIS
 514   N/A                   U.S. ARGO PROJECT
 527   CLIVAR                U.S. CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND PREDICTABILITY
 240   USAP                  UNITED STATES ANTARCTIC RESEARCH PROGRAM
 625                         United States Carbon Cycle Science Program 
 183                         UNITED STATES/PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA COOPERATIVE STUDY
9999                         UNKNOWN
 502   TROPAT                UNTERSUNCHUNGEN ZU ZIRKULATION UND WASSERMASSEN-ANOMALIEN MITPROFILIERENDEN MESSROBOTERN IM TROPISCHEN ATLANTIK
 450   UPWELL                UPWELLING CRUISE 1969-SEA FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE
 367   US GLOBEC Georges Bank Program   US GLOBEC Georges Bank Program
 361   JGOFS/AESOPS          US JGOFS ANTARCTIC ENVIRONMENTS SOUTHERN OCEAN PROCESS STUDY
 129                         US-USSR WEDDELL POLYNYA EXPEDITION
 427   US-CHINA COOP         US/Chinese Ship-of-Opportunity Sampling Program
 222   VENTS                 Vents Program
 113                         WARM CORE RINGS
 512   WEN                   WASSERMASSEN IM EUROPAISCHES NORDMEER
 494   WECCON                WEDDELL SEA CONVECTION CONTROL
 480   WCOS                  West Coast Observation System
 482   WHAP                  WEST HAWAII AQUARIUM PROJECT
 176   WEPOCS                WESTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC OCEAN CIRCULATION STUDY
 309                         WESTERN GULF OF MAINE RED TIDE SURVEY
 186                         WETLANDS LOSS
 524                         Willapa Bay oyster monitoring
 582   WOCE GUYANA           WOCE GUYANA
 583   WOCE-CITHER           WOCE-CITHER
 190                         WORLD CLIMATE RESEARCH PROGRAM
 225   WOCE                  WORLD OCEAN CIRCULATION EXPERIMENT
 584   WOCE-ROMANCHE         World Ocean Circulation Experiment - ROMANCHE
 539   WOCE Confluence       World Ocean Circulation Experiment Confluence programme
 629   WOOD                  World-wide Ocean Optics Database
 296                         YMER  '80
 171   AJAX                  
 318   ARKTIS                
 360   BALMON                
   7   BARSTUR               
 353   BLMP/BMP              
 110   BORAX                 
 178   CARIPOL/MARPOLMON     
  45   ESCAROSA I            
 316   EUBEX                 
 335   EUMELI                
 314   FRAM-1                
 315   FRAM-111              
 256   FRONTS                
 336   INDIGO                
 342   INPOC                 
 108   IXTOC                 
 354   IYHS                  
 558   JADE-INDIGO-SINODE    
 338   JASUS                 
 115   LOTUS                 
  34   MAZATLAN              
 352   MOVEN                 
 313   NORSEX                
 357   OPTINOM               
 351   OVERFLOW              
 337   PHYCEMED              
 326   PHYGAS                
 327   PREFIL                
 359   PRISMA                
 334   PROPPAC               
 339   REUNION               
 330   SINODE                
 319   SIZEX                 
 358   SKAGEX                
  62   SKIJUMP               
 322   SKIPJACK              
 341   SUZAN                 
 340   SUZIL                 
 332   TOPOGULF              
 333   TOURBILLON            
 355   TUVAS                 
  27   VAMP                  
 320   WESTPAC               
 356   ZISCH