By CHARLES BOOTHE
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
(Bluefield Daily Telegraph photo by Charles Boothe)
ATHENS, W.Va. — When Dr. Janine Krippner was 13 years old she watched the film “Dante’s Peak” about a fictional volcanic eruption set in Idaho, and it changed her life.
“That was when I decided I was going to be volcanologist,” she said Wednesday from her office at Concord University, where she is a research professor working on a one-year project.
For the last three weeks she not only has been busy with her research on volcanic ash, she has also been talking to media representatives from around the country and the world.
Krippner has been working literally night and day taking those calls, providing her expertise to make sure their stories are correct about the Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii.
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