| ADVANCE | Organizational Change for Gender Equity in STEM Academic Professions |
| CO2 | carbon dioxide |
| CURE | Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience |
| CZCN | Critical-Zone Collaborative Network |
| DBER | discipline-based education research |
| DEIJ | diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice |
| EHR | Education and Human Resources |
| ESS | Earth Systems Science |
| GEO | geoscience |
| GNSS | Global Navigation Satellite System |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |
| GPU | graphics processing unit |
| HBCU | Historically Black College and University |
| INFEWS | Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems |
| IODP | International Ocean Discovery Program |
| IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
| LTER | Long-Term Ecological Research |
| MSI | Minority Serving Institution |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| NCAR | National Center for Atmospheric Research |
| NEON | National Ecological Observatory Network |
| NSF | National Science Foundation |
| PETM | Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum |
| PPP | Polar Prediction Project |
| REU | Research Experience for Undergraduates |
| SES | socio-environmental system |
| STEM | science, technology, engineering, and mathematics |
| URGE | Unlearning Racism in the Geosciences |
| YOPP | Year of Polar Prediction |