LARP
(List of Acronyms Relevant to the PASC)
ANF – Array Network Facility
AOF – USArray Array Operations Facility
AON – Arctic Observing Network
ARRA – American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
BoD – IRIS Board of Directors
CEUSN – Central Eastern United States Network (otherwise known as “One in Four” == TA leave-behind
program)
CoCom – IRIS Program Coordination Committee (2-3 BoD members, chairs of GSN, DMS, PASSCAL, EPO
& IDS standing committees, USAAC chair, program managers)
CONOP – CONcept of OPeration
COTS – Commercial off-the-shelf
CWP – Center for Wave Phenomena (Colorado School of Mines)
DC HQ – (Washington) DC (IRIS) HeadQuarters
DMC – Data Management Center (in Seattle)
DMS – Data Management System (oversees DMC)
DMSSC – Data Management System Standing Committee
DS – Data Services (IRIS directorate, equivalent to IS)
E&O – Education and Outreach
ECI – Early Career Investigators
EPO – Education and Public Outreach
ESSC – EarthScope Steering Committee (replaces USAAC)
F2F – Face 2 Face (as opposed to those lovely conference-call meetings we’re all so fond of)
FA – Flexible Array (Earthscope portable instrument pool)
FTE – Full-time equivalent
G&A – Grants and Awards
GABA – Global Array of Broadband Arrays
GAGE – Geodetic facilities for the Advancement of Geoscience and Earthscope (UNAVCO 5-year
proposal)
GEOICE – Geophysical Earth Observatory for Ice-Covered Environments (NSF-funded instrument
development program for Polar, PI Paul Winberry (Central Washington University))
GLISN – GreenLand Ice Sheet monitoring Network
GSN – Global Seismograph Network
GSNSC – Global Seismograph Network Standing Committee
IDS – International Development Seismology
IRIS – Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
IS – Instrumentation Services
ISSC – Instrumentation Services Standing Committee
LASSO – Latest Assessment of Seismic Station Operations
M&S – Materials and Supplies
MRI – Major Research Instrumentation (NSF program)
MUSTANG – Modular Utility for Statistical kNowledge Gathering (DMS QA/QC software)
NCE – No-cost extension (IRIS’ budget for last 3 months of FY 2013)
NLNM – New Low Noise Model
NMT – New Mexico Tech
NSF – National Science Foundation
O&M – Operations and Maintenance
OBSIP – Ocean Bottom Seismic Instrumentation Program
OPP – NSF’s Office of Polar Programs
PASSCAL – Program for Array Seismic Studies of the Continental Lithosphere
PASC – PASSCAL Standing Committee
PASWG – PASSCAL Sustainability Working Group
PASI – Pan-American Advancement in Scientific Investigations (NSF program)
PBO – Plate Boundary Observatory (geodetic component of Earthscope)
PDCC – Portable Data Collection Center software
Ph5 – PIC-supported active-source data archiving format
PI – Principal Instigator … err, that is, Investigator
PIC – PASSCAL Instrument Center
PIF – Project Initiation Form
PM – Program Manager
PNSC – Polar Network Science Committee (joint IRIS & UNAVCO committee)
PS – Portable Services
PSS – Polar Support Services
QA/QC – Quality Assurance (not be confused with Q & A) / Quality Control
RAMP – RApid Mobile Program
SAGE – Seismological facilities for the Advancement of Geoscience and Earthscope (new IRIS 5-year
budget for FY 2013-2018)
SEG – Society for Exploration Geophysicists
SIG – Special Interest Group
SOH – State-of-health
TA – Transportable Array (Earthscope 2-year stations == USArray)
TACO – TA Coordination Office
UNAVCO – University NAVSTAR Consortium (runs geodetic component of Earthscope)
USAAC – USArray Advisory Committee
USGS – Universal Source of Great Science
WBS – Work Breakdown Structure