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Geysers, tufa and digital media

10-13-2009

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Reynolds School student Kathy Gordon photographs tufa and geysers at the Pyramid Lake Pinnacles, a site not open to the public. Photo by Howard Goldbaum.

Reynolds School student Kathy Gordon photographs tufa and geysers at the Pyramid Lake Pinnacles, a site not open to the public. Photo by Howard Goldbaum.

Kathy Gordon, a student in Journalism 451, traveled recently to the Pyramid Lake Pinnacles, a site sacred to the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe. This site, with a hot spring geyser and towering tufa formations, is off-limits to non-tribal members. Gordon photographed the geyser and other
landscape features for a project that involves creating virtual reality environments.
Two tribal staff members from the Pyramid Lake Museum and Visitors Center accompanied Gordon and associate professor Howard Goldbaum, who teaches the class. Gordon is working with the tribe members on her project, which will be finished in December.


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