Nancy Robinson

Nancy Robinson and Katie Hogin, who contributed the photos for this story, are seniors in journalism at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. A different version of the story appeared in Scoop, the student-produced magazine of the UTK School of Journalism and Electronic Media.
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Up Close and Personal: Ash spills, mountaintop removal & sandhill cranes

by Nancy Robinson | 6, Add your Comment | Nov 12 09

It’s a Thursday afternoon in mid-winter, and Dr. Mark Littmann is driving a University of Tennessee van packed with 10 of his students down a gravel road in the backwoods near Kingston, Tenn. In his khaki trench coat and glasses, Littmann looks more like a detective than a science journalism professor. Eager, focused, resolute. Nothing is stopping this van — not the absent back seat, not the guide who’s gone missing-in-action, not the fluorescent “Do Not Enter” signs they pass, and definitely not any of the health risks said to be looming in the air. No, Littmann, with his students bouncing in ...