Acronyms
    
AAM   American Association of Museums
ALISON   Alaska Lake Ice and Snow Observatory Network
AMANDA   Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array
ANDRILL   Antarctic Drilling
ANKN   Alaska Native Knowledge Network
ANSWER   Antarctic mailing list maintained by the Texas A&M University
ArcticInfo   Arctic mailing list maintained by the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States
ASTC   Association of Science and Technology Centers
AZA   American Zoo and Aquarium Association
     
BOOMERANG   Balloon Observations of Millimetric Extragalactic Radiation and Geophysics
BASC   Barrow Arctic Science Consortium
     
CoVis   Learning through Collaborative Visualization
     
DLESE   Digital Library for Earth System Education
     
Ice Cube   International high energy neutrino observatory being built on the South Pole
IGY   International Geophysical Year
IPY   International Polar Year
     
GLOBE   Worldwide, hands-on science and education program
     
NSDL   National Science Digital Library
NSF GK-12   NSF Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education
NSTA   National Science Teacher’s Association
     
REU   NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates
     
SEARCH   Study of Environmental Arctic Change
     
TEA   Teachers Experiencing Antarctica and the Arctic Program
TREC   Teachers and Researchers Exploring and Collaborating

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