Frequently Used Acronyms
| ACORK | Advanced Circulation Obviation Retrofit Kit |
| ANZIC | Australia-New Zealand IODP Consortium |
| BCR | Bremen Core Repository |
| BGS | British Geological Survey |
| CAB | Curatorial Advisory Board |
| CDP | Common Depth Point |
| CEREGE | Centre Européen de Recherche et d'Enseignement des Géosciences de l'Environnement |
| CORK | Circulation Obviation Retrofit Kit |
| CTF | Communications Task Force |
| DSDP | Deep Sea Drilling Project (1968-1982) |
| D/V | Drilling Vessel |
| ECORD | European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling |
| EPC | European Petrophysics Consortium |
| EPM | Expedition Project Manager |
| ESSAC | ECORD Science Support and Advisory Committee |
| ESO | ECORD Science Operator |
| ExB | IODP3 Executive Board |
| GCR | Gulf Coast Repository |
| ICDP | International Continental Scientific Drilling Program |
| IGC | International Geological Congress |
| IODP | International Ocean Discovery Program (2013-2024) |
| IODP | Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (2003-2013) |
| IODP3-SO | International Ocean Drilling Programme Science Office |
| JAMSTEC | Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology |
| JANUS | USIO Database System |
| J-CORES | Japanese Database System |
| J-DESC | Japan Drilling Earth Science Consortium |
| JOIDES | Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling |
| JR | R/V JOIDES Resolution |
| JRSO | JOIDES Resolution Science Operator |
| KCC | Kochi Core Center |
| L2S | Land-to-Sea |
| LIMS | Laboratory Information Management System |
| LTBMS | Long-Term Borehole Monitoring System |
| LWD | Logging While Drilling |
| MarE3 | Institute for Marine-Earth Exploration and Engineering (JAMSTEC) |
| MEXT | Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan) |
| MoES | Ministry of Earth Sciences (India) |
| MOST | Ministry of Science and Technology (China) |
| MSP | Mission-Specific Platform |
| MSP-FB | Mission Specific Platform Facility Board |
| NanTroSEIZE | Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment |
| NSF | National Science Foundation (USA) |
| ODP | Ocean Drilling Program (1983-2003) |
| PANGAEA | Publishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data |
| PDB | Proposal Database System |
| POOH | Pull Out Of Hole |
| PRL | Proponent Response Letter |
| RCB | Rotary Core Barrel |
| SAC | Sample Allocation Committee |
| SEA Group | Safety and Environment Advisory Group |
| SEG-Y | Seismic data (designated Y) file in the Society for Exploration Geophysicists' (SEG) "standardized" format |
| SEP | Science Evaluation Panel |
| SPARCs | Scientific Projects using Ocean Drilling Archives |
| SSDB | Site Survey Database |
| USIO | United States Implementing Organization |
| USSSP | U.S. Science Support Program |
| VTF | Vision Task Force |
| WDC-MARE | World Data Center - Marine |
| WOW | Wait On Weather |