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Report 17

Appendix 3

GoSEAC X

List of Acronyms and Abbreviations

ADD Antarctic Digital Database
AEON Antarctic Environmental Officers Network
APIS Antarctic Pack-Ice Seals Programme
ASMA Antarctic Specially Managed Area
ASPA Antarctic Specially Protected Area
ATCM Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting
ATCP Antarctic Treaty Consultative Party
ATS Antarctic Treaty System
BOD Biological Oxygen Demand
CCAMLR Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources
CEE Comprehensive Environmental Evaluation
CEP Committee on Environmental Protection
COMNAP Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programmes
DO Dissolved Oxygen
EASIZ Ecology of the Antarctic Sea-Ice Zone
EIA Environmental Impact Assessment
GAP Gap Analysis Procedure
GLOCHANT Group of Specialists on Global Change and the Antarctic
GOSEAC Group of Specialists on Environmental Affairs and Conservation
IEE Initial Environmental Evaluation
IP Information Paper
IUCN International Union for the Conservation of Nature (World Conservation Union)
N Nitrate
NADC National Antarctic Data Centre
NASA National Aeronautical and Space Administration
NGO Non-Governmental Organization
NSF National Science Foundation
P Phosphate
PAH Poly-Aromatic Hydrocarbons
pH Hydrogen potential (acidity)
RAPAL Reunión de Administradores de Programas Antárticos Latinamericanos
SAER State of the Antarctic Environment Report
SCAR Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
Si Silicate
SPA Specially Protected Area
SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest
TEWG Transitional Environmental Working Group
TIC Total Inorganic Carbon
TOC Total Organic Carbon
US United States of America
WP Working Paper