| ACRONYM | DEFINITION |
| BOSCORE | British Ocean Sediment Core Repository, Guy Rothwell, Curator |
| BCR | Bremen Core Repository of the Ocean Drilling Program |
| DOSEC | Drilling Observational Sampling of the Earth's Crust |
| DSDP | Deep Sea Drilling Project |
| ESH | Earth System History, a National Science Foundation initiative of the US Global Change Research Program |
| EUROCORE | A European Union project building a centralized searchable Internet database of core repository data within Europe. (This acronym is under review and will change in the near future.) |
| GEOMAR | Research Center for Marine Geosciences, Kiel University, Germany |
| GEOTEK | Manufacturers of multisensor tracks. Peter Schultheiss, owner/contact |
| GRAPE | Gamma-ray attenuation porosity evaluator |
| ICDP | International Continental Drilling Programme |
| IMAGES | International Marine Global Change Study |
| JPEG | An image storage format, "Joint Photographic Experts Group" |
| LDEO | Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory |
| LRC | Limnological Research Center (at the University of Minnesota) |
| MAST | Marine Science and Technology |
| MGSL | Marine Geological Samples Laboratory (at the University of Rhode Island) |
| MRC | Micropaleontology Reference Center |
| MSCL | Multi-Sensor Core Logger |
| MST | Multi-Sensor Testing |
| NERC | Natural Environment Research Council - Lead science funding organization in the UK. |
| NGDC | US National Geophysical Data Center |
| NIOZ | Netherlands Institute for Sea Research |
| NSF | US National Science Foundation |
| NTSI | New Technologies in Scientific Imaging |
| ODP | Ocean Drilling Program |
| OSU | Oregon State University |
| PAGES | Past Global Changes/International Geosphere-Biosphere Project |
| SCAT | Split Core Analysis Track, developed by Alan Mix and others at Oregon State |
| SIO | Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
| UNOLS | University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (coordinates US ships' scheduling) |
| UK | United Kingdom |
| US | United States of America |
| URI | University of Rhode Island |
| URL | Universal Resource Locator |
| USC | University of Southern California |
| UW | University of Washington |
| WDC GMG, Boulder | World Data Center for Geophysics & Marine Geology, Boulder, operated by NGDC |
| WHOI | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| XRF-CS | X-ray Fluorescence Core Scanner |
