International and Strategic Partnerships Office
COMMON NERC/NOC ACRONYMS
BAS British Antarctic Survey (NERC)
BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
BGS British Geological Survey (NERC)
CCLRC Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils
CEH Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (NERC)
CSA Chief Scientific Adviser
DEFRA Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
DGRC Director General of the Research Councils
DTI Department of Trade and Industry
EA Environment Agency
EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
ERFF Environment Research Funders Forum
ESF European Science Foundation
ESRC Economic and Social Research Council
ESSC Environmental Systems Science Centre
FP6/FP7 The European Commission Framework programmes 6 , 7(commenced 2007)
HEFCE Higher Education Funding Council for England
HEIs Higher Education Institutions
HPC High Performance Computing
IODP Integrated Ocean Drilling Program
JIF Joint Infrastructure Fund (OST/Wellcome Trust)
MBA Marine Biological Association
MRC Medical Research Council
NERC Natural Environment Research Council
NEB NERC Executive Board
NIEeS National Institute for Environmental eScience
NOCS National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (formerly SOC)
Oceans2025 The NERC Programme of marine strategic research 2007-2012
OPMs Output and Performance Measures
OSI Office of Science and Innovation (DTI)
PML Plymouth Marine Laboratory
POL Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory
PPARC Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council
QUEST Quantifying the Earth System
RAE Research Assessment Exercise
RCUK Research Councils
SAHFOS Sir Alaster Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science
SAMS Scottish Association for Marine Sciences
SBRI Small Business Research Initiative
SISB NERC Science and Innovation Strategy Board
SMA Science and Management Audit
SMRU Sea Mammal Research Unit
SOC Southampton Oceanography Centre (former name of NOC)
