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  • Crop dusting oranges.  Helicopter flying over orange groves near Bakersfield, California, USA, spraying the trees to protect the crop from disease and mildew. .Cameo Ranch.
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  • Crop dusting. Spraying orange orchards with pesticides at Cameo Ranch, Lancaster, California, USA. The helicopter is landing on a platform on top of the tanker trunk to reload. A flagger, who keeps track of the rows that have been sprayed, is at right.
    USA_AG_CRPD_22_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying orange orchards with pesticides at Cameo Ranch, Lancaster, California, USA. The helicopter is landing on a platform on top of the tanker trunk to reload. A flagger, who keeps track of the rows that have been sprayed, is at right.
    USA_AG_CRPD_22_xs.jpg
  • A helicopter sprays flowers grown for seed: Lompoc, California. USA.
    USA_AG_FLWR_35_xs.jpg
  • A helicopter sprays flowers grown for seed: Lompoc, California. USA. The Lompoc Valley is said to have the most consistent temperate climate in the world, which is a critical factor in the cultivation of flowers.  The valley has been a flower seed-producing region for nearly 100 years. In the early 1980's, Lompoc Valley was producing one-third of the world's flower seeds.  Lompoc is a 12-mile-long, and 3-mile-wide valley, which lies just inland from the coast of California, about 150 miles north of Los Angeles. There are 1600 acres of 600 varieties of flowers from which they harvest approximately 400 tons of seeds each year. Crop dusting of flower fields (spraying pesticides).
    USA_AG_FLWR_35_xs.jpg
  • US Army helicopters landing near burning oil wells in Iraq's Rumaila Oil Field, in southern Iraq. The wells were set on fire with explosives placed by retreating Iraqi troops when the US and UK invasion began. Seven or eight wells were set ablaze but at least one other was detonated but did not ignite. The Rumaila field is one of Iraq's biggest oil fields with five billion barrels in reserve. Many of the wells are 10,000 feet deep and produce huge volumes of oil and gas under tremendous pressure, which makes capping them very difficult and dangerous. Rumaila is also spelled Rumeilah.
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  • Crop dusting. Spraying orange orchards with pesticides at Cameo Ranch, Lancaster, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_25_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying orange orchards with pesticides at Cameo Ranch, Lancaster, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_23_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying wine grape vineyards with sulphur in Napa Valley, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_21_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying wine grape vineyards with pesticides in Napa, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_19_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fungicide on fields of marigolds grown for seed.
    USA_AG_CRPD_17_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying wine grape vineyards with sulphur in Napa Valley, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_21_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying wine grape vineyards with pesticides in Sonoma, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_18_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seed with pesticides.
    USA_AG_CRPD_15_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seed with pesticides.
    USA_AG_CRPD_14_xs.jpg
  • Removing a protestor from the front of French Defense Pavilion at the Paris Air Show, at Le Bourget Airport, France. Held every other year, the event is one of the world's biggest international trade fairs for the aerospace business.
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  • Crop dusting. Spraying orange orchards with pesticides at Cameo Ranch, Lancaster, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_24_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Dusting wine grape vineyards with sulphur in Sonoma, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_20_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying wine grape vineyards with pesticides in Sonoma, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_18_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seed with pesticides.
    USA_AG_CRPD_16_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seed with pesticides.
    USA_AG_CRPD_15_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seed with pesticides.
    USA_AG_CRPD_14_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of marigold flowers grown for seeds with pesticides.
    USA_AG_CRPD_11_xs.jpg
  • An aerial photograph of John Harris, owner of Harris Feeding Company, flying his Cessna over his Ranch in Coalinga, California. San Joaquin Valley. USA [[California's largest feed lot]] [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
    USA_AG_BEEF_03_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying orange orchards with pesticides at Cameo Ranch, Lancaster, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_25_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying orange orchards with pesticides at Cameo Ranch, Lancaster, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_24_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying orange orchards with pesticides at Cameo Ranch, Lancaster, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_23_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Dusting wine grape vineyards with sulphur in Sonoma, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_20_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying wine grape vineyards with pesticides in Napa, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_19_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fungicide on fields of marigolds grown for seed.
    USA_AG_CRPD_17_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seed with pesticides.
    USA_AG_CRPD_16_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of marigold flowers grown for seeds with pesticides.
    USA_AG_CRPD_11_xs.jpg
  • Aerial of burning a burning oil well in the Magwa oil field in Kuwait after the end of the Gulf War in May of 1991. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
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  • Solar energy electrical generating power plant in the Mojave Desert near Barstow, California. Solar One consists of a circular arrangement of 1, 818 mirrors, each measuring 23x23 feet (7x7 meters). These mirrors focus the sunlight onto a huge central receiver, which sits atop a 300-foot (91 meter) tower. The mirrors are computer controlled to track the path of the sun. (the mirrors are NOT focusing the sunlight onto the tower in this photo: the receiver is not glowing hot as it would be if the sunlight were focused on it). Water is pumped through the receiver and heated to a temperature of 960 degrees Fahrenheit. The resultant steam runs a turbine, producing 10 megawatts of power for eight hours a day. (1982).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_34_xs.jpg
  • Deep in the basement of the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute, Omead Amidi adjusts the wing of the robot helicopter he is designing with Takeo Kanade, a Carnegie Mellon researcher who specializes in robotic vision. Several smaller versions of the project sit in his workshop. Pittsburgh, PA. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 160-161.
    USA_rs_101_qxxs.jpg
  • Scientist Richard Turco and Carl Sagan were on the scientific team that devised the concept of nuclear winter. Turco is seen here at the Nuclear Winter test fire: where a canyon outside Los Angeles was deliberately set on fire to study the potential climatic effects of a nuclear war. The nuclear winter theory predicts that smoke from fires burning after a nuclear war would block sunlight, causing a rapid drop in temperature that would trigger serious ecological disturbance. The test burn took place in December 1986 on 500 acres of brush in Lodi Canyon, Los Angeles. Dripping napalm from a helicopter ignited the fire. Ground-based temperature sensors were used to study soil erosion. Various airborne experiments included smoke sampling & high-altitude infrared imaging from a converted U-2 spy plane.
    USA_SCI_NUKE_25_xs.jpg
  • Nuclear Winter test fire: brown smoke rises from smoldering brush fires, deliberately started to study the potential climatic effects of a nuclear war. The nuclear winter theory predicts that smoke from fires burning after a nuclear war would block sunlight, causing a rapid drop in temperature that would trigger serious ecological disturbance. The test burn took place in December 1986 on 500 acres of brush in Lodi Canyon, Los Angeles. Dripping napalm from a helicopter ignited the fire. Ground-based temperature sensors were used to study soil erosion. Various airborne experiments included smoke sampling & high-altitude infrared imaging from a converted U-2 spy plane.
    USA_SCI_NUKE_21_xs.jpg
  • A Defense Department specialist in a radiation suit on the Nuclear Test Site in the Nevada desert outside Las Vegas holds a Geiger counter during a simulated nuclear weapons accident test. In the "Broken Arrow" (any accident involving a nuclear weapon) exercise, the Defense Department and the Department of Energy simulated the crash of a helicopter carrying nuclear weapons. Various agencies and departments then practiced coordinating their responses in an effort to find and clean up the mess. Real radioactive material was spread around the desert and a large number of soldiers simulated the angry residents of a nearby town..1981
    USA_SCI_NUKE_01_xs.jpg
  • Nuclear Winter test fire: brush fires deliberately started to study the potential climatic effects of a nuclear war. The nuclear winter theory predicts that smoke from fires burning after a nuclear war would block sunlight, causing a rapid drop in temperature that would trigger serious ecological disturbance. The test burn took place in December 1986 on 500 acres of brush in Lodi Canyon, Los Angeles. Dripping napalm from a helicopter ignited the fire. Ground-based temperature sensors were used to study soil erosion. Various airborne experiments included smoke sampling & high-altitude infrared imaging from a converted U-2 spy plane.
    USA_SCI_NUKE_24_xs.jpg
  • Nuclear Winter test fire: brown smoke rises from smoldering brush fires, deliberately started to study the potential climatic effects of a nuclear war. The nuclear winter theory predicts that smoke from fires burning after a nuclear war would block sunlight, causing a rapid drop in temperature that would trigger serious ecological disturbance. The test burn took place in December 1986 on 500 acres of brush in Lodi Canyon, Los Angeles. Dripping napalm from a helicopter ignited the fire. Ground-based temperature sensors were used to study soil erosion. Various airborne experiments included smoke sampling & high-altitude infrared imaging from a converted U-2 spy plane.
    USA_SCI_NUKE_22_xs.jpg
  • Lightning tolerance test. A researcher holding two carbon-fiber panels from a helicopter, showing their tolerance of lightning. The panel at right is simple carbon fiber, and has had a large hole punched in it by simulated lightning. This is because it is an electrical insulator, so cannot disperse the electricity across its surface. The panel at left has a thin grid of copper wire coating the surface. This allows the electrical charge to disperse over the surface, causing nothing more than damage to the paint. Photographed at Lightning Technologies Inc. of Massachusetts, USA. 1992.MODEL RELEASED
    USA_SCI_LIG_45_xs.jpg
  • Nuclear Winter test fire: fire crews rest while monitoring the brown smoke rising from smoldering brush fires, deliberately started to study the potential climatic effects of a nuclear war. The nuclear winter theory predicts that smoke from fires burning after a nuclear war would block sunlight, causing a rapid drop in temperature that would trigger serious ecological disturbance. The test burn took place in December 1986 on 500 acres of brush in Lodi Canyon, Los Angeles. Dripping napalm from a helicopter ignited the fire. Ground-based temperature sensors were used to study soil erosion. Various airborne experiments included smoke sampling & high-altitude infrared imaging from a converted U-2 spy plane.
    USA_SCI_NUKE_23_xs.jpg
  • Defense Department specialists in radiation suits on the Nuclear Test Site in the Nevada desert outside Las Vegas hold Geiger counters during a simulated nuclear weapons accident test. In the "Broken Arrow" (any accident involving a nuclear weapon) exercise, the Defense Department and the Department of Energy simulated the crash of a helicopter carrying nuclear weapons. Various agencies and departments then practiced coordinating their responses in an effort to find and clean up the mess. Real radioactive material was spread around the desert and a large number of soldiers simulated the angry residents of a nearby town..1981
    USA_SCI_NUKE_02_xs.jpg

Peter Menzel Photography

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