Cottrell, Elizabeth

Research Geologist; Curator-in-Charge of Rocks and Ores; co-Director of NSF REU Site: NHRE

Positions

co-Director, NSF REU Site: Natural History Research Experiences 2010 -
Curator-in-Charge, National Rock and Ore Collections 2017 -
Director, Global Volcanism Program (Smithsonian) , National Museum of Natural History 2010 - 2016

experimental petrology; geochemistry; spectroscopy; volcanology | mid-ocean ridge and arc basalts and peridotites | volatile elements | core formation

Geographic Focus

Alaska State or Province
Oceania Transnational Region

education and training

Ph.D. in Petrology, Columbia University , Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory 1998 - 2004
B.S. in Geochemistry, Brown University 1993 - 1997

awards and honors

Board of Directors, conferred by International Geochemical Society, 2018
Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Award, conferred by Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Awards, 2017
Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America, conferred by Mineralogical Society of America, 2016
NMNH Science Achievement Award , 2014
NMNH Peer Recognition Award, 2014
American Association of University Women Educational Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, conferred by American Association of University Women , 2003
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 1998
Fulbright Fellowship (Paris, France), conferred by Fulbright, 1998

selected publications

article
- Holycross, Megan and Cottrell, Elizabeth. 2022. "Experimental quantification of vanadium partitioning between eclogitic minerals (garnet, clinopyroxene, rutile) and silicate melt as a function of temperature and oxygen fugacity." Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 177, (2), New York; NY: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-022-01888-8. 2022
- Davis, Fred A. and Cottrell, Elizabeth. 2022. "Partitioning of Fe2O3 in peridotite partial melting experiments over a range of oxygen fugacities elucidates ferric iron systematics in mid-ocean ridge basalts and ferric iron content of the upper mantle (vol 176, 67, 2021)." Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 177, (7). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-022-01933-6. 2022
- Ague, Jay J., Tassara, Santiago, Holycross, Megan E., Ji-Lei Li, Cottrell, Elizabeth, Schwarzenbach, Esther M., Fassoulas, Charalampos, and John, Timm. 2022. "Slab-derived devolatilization fluids oxidized by subducted metasedimentary rocks." Nature Geoscience, Berlin; Germany: Nature Portfolio, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-00904-7. 2022
- Rudra, Avishek, Cottrell, Elizabeth, and Hirschmann, Marc M. 2021. "Experimental determination of ferric iron partitioning between pyroxene and melt at 100 kPa." Chemical Geology 584:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2021.120532 2021
- Waters, L. E., Cottrell, Elizabeth, Coombs, M. L., and Kelley, K. A. 2021. "Generation of Calc-Alkaline Magmas during Crystallization at High Oxygen Fugacity: An Experimental and Petrologic Study of Tephras from Buldir Volcano, Western Aleutian Arc, Alaska, USA." Journal of Petrology 62 (3):https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egaa104 2021
- Birner, Suzanne K., Cottrell, Elizabeth, Warren, Jessica M., Kelley, Katherine A., and Davis, Fred A. 2021. "Melt addition to mid-ocean ridge peridotites increases spinel Cr# with no significant effect on recorded oxygen fugacity." Earth and Planetary Science Letters 566:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2021.116951 2021
- Davis, Fred A. and Cottrell, Elizabeth. 2021. "Partitioning of Fe2O3 in peridotite partial melting experiments over a range of oxygen fugacities elucidates ferric iron systematics in mid-ocean ridge basalts and ferric iron content of the upper mantle." Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 176 (9):67-67. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-021-01823-3 2021
- Rose-Koga, E. F., Bouvier, A. -S, Gaetani, G. A., Wallace, P. J., Allison, C. M., Andrys, J. A., Angeles de la Torre, C. A., Barth, A., Bodnar, R. J., Gartner, A. J. J. Bracco, Butters, D., Castillejo, A., Chilson-Parks, B., Choudhary, B. R., Cluzel, N., Cole, M., Cottrell, Elizabeth, Daly, A., Danyushevsky, L. V., DeVitre, C. L., Drignon, M. J., France, L., Gaborieau, M., Garcia, M. O., Gatti, E. et al. 2021. "Silicate melt inclusions in the new millennium: A review of recommended practices for preparation, analysis, and data presentation." Chemical Geology 570:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2021.120145 2021
- Jackson, Colin R. M., Cottrell, Elizabeth, and Andrews, Ben. 2021. "Warm and oxidizing slabs limit ingassing efficiency of nitrogen to the mantle." Earth and Planetary Science Letters 553:116615-116615. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116615 2021
- McCammon, Catherine, Bureau, Helene, Cleaves,H.James,,II, Cottrell, Elizabeth, Dorfman, Susannah M., Kellogg, Louise H., Li, Jie, Mikhail, Sami, Moussallam, Yves, Sanloup, Chrystele, Thomson, Andrew R., and Brovarone, Alberto Vitale. 2020. "Deep Earth carbon reactions through time and space." American Mineralogist 105 (1):22-27. https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2020-6888CCBY 2020
- Holycross, Megan and Cottrell, Elizabeth. 2020. "Partitioning of V and 19 other trace elements between rutile and silicate melt as a function of oxygen fugacity and melt composition: Implications for subduction zones." American Mineralogist 105 (2):244-254. https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2020-7013 2020
- Fischer, Rebecca A., Cottrell, Elizabeth, Hauri, Erik, Lee, Kanani K. M., and Le Voyer, Marion. 2020. "The carbon content of Earth and its core." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117 (16):8743-8749. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1919930117 2020
- Le Voyer, Marion, Hauri, Erik H., Cottrell, Elizabeth, Kelley, Katherine A., Salters, Vincent J. M., Langmuir, Charles H., Hilton, David R., Barry, Peter H., and Fueri, Evelyn. 2019. "Carbon Fluxes and Primary Magma CO₂ Contents Along the Global Mid-Ocean Ridge System." Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 20 (3):1387-1424. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GC007630 2019
- Brounce, Maryjo, Cottrell, Elizabeth, and Kelley, Katherine A. 2019. "The redox budget of the Mariana subduction zone." Earth and Planetary Science Letters 528:115859-115859. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115859 2019
- Cottrell, Elizabeth, Lanzirotti, Antonio, Mysen, Bjorn, Birner, Suzanne, Kelley, Katherine A., Botcharnikov, Roman, Davis, Fred A., and Newville, Matthew. 2018. "A Mössbauer-based XANES calibration for hydrous basalt glasses reveals radiation-induced oxidation of Fe." American Mineralogist 103 (4):489-501. https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2018-6268 2018
- Zhang, Hongluo L., Cottrell, Elizabeth, Solheid, Peat A., Kelley, Katherine A., and Hirschmann, Marc M. 2018. "Determination of Fe³ /?Fe of XANES basaltic glass standards by Mössbauer spectroscopy and its application to the oxidation state of iron in MORB." Chemical Geology 479:166-175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.01.006 2018
- Jackson, Colin R. M., Bennett, Neil R., Du, Zhixue, Cottrell, Elizabeth, and Fei, Yingwei. 2018. "Early episodes of high-pressure core formation preserved in plume mantle." Nature 553 (7689):491- . https://doi.org/10.1038/nature25446 2018
- Davis, Fred A. and Cottrell, Elizabeth. 2018. "Experimental investigation of basalt and peridotite oxybarometers: Implications for spinel thermodynamic models and Fe3 compatibility during generation of upper mantle melts." American Mineralogist 103 (7):1056-1067. https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2018-6280 2018
- Birner, Suzanne K., Cottrell, Elizabeth, Kelley, Katherine A., and Davis, Fred A. 2018. "Peridotites and basalts reveal broad congruence between two independent records of mantle f(O2) despite local redox heterogeneity." Earth and Planetary Science Letters 494:172-189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2018.04.035 2018
- Grocke, Stephanie B., de Silva, Shanka L., Wallace, Paul J., Cottrell, Elizabeth, and Schmitt, Axel K. 2017. "Catastrophic Caldera-Forming (CCF) Monotonous Silicic Magma Reservoirs: Constraints from Volatiles in Melt Inclusions from the 3.49 Ma Tara Supereruption, Guacha II Caldera, SW Bolivia." Journal of Petrology 58 (11):2115-2142. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egy003 2017
- Pistone, Mattia, Whittington, Alan G., Andrews, Benjamin, and Cottrell, Elizabeth. 2017. "Crystal-rich lava dome extrusion during vesiculation: An experimental study." Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 347:1-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2017.06.018 2017
- Zhang, H. L., Hirschmann, M. M., Cottrell, Elizabeth, and Withers, A. C. 2017. "Effect of pressure on Fe3 /ΣFe ratio in a mafic magma and consequences for magma ocean redox gradients." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 204:83-103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2017.01.023 2017
- Birner, Suzanne K., Warren, Jessica M., Cottrell, Elizabeth, Davis, Fred A., Kelley, Katherine A., and Falloon, Trevor J. 2017. "Forearc Peridotites from Tonga Record Heterogeneous Oxidation of the Mantle following Subduction Initiation." Journal of Petrology 58 (9):1755-1779. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egx072 2017
- Le Voyer, M., Kelley, K. A., Cottrell, Elizabeth, and Hauri, E. H. 2017. "Heterogeneity in mantle carbon content from CO₂-undersaturated basalts." Nature Communications 8:14062. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14062 2017
- Helz, R. T., Cottrell, Elizabeth, Brounce, M. N., and Kelley, K. A. 2017. "Olivine-melt relationships and syneruptive redox variations in the 1959 eruption of Kilauea Volcano as revealed by XANES." Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 333/334:1-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2016.12.006 2017
- Davis, Fred A., Cottrell, Elizabeth, Birner, Suzanne K., Warren, Jessica M., and Lopez, Oscar G. 2017. "Revisiting the electron microprobe method of spinel-olivine-orthopyroxene oxybarometry applied to spinel peridotites." American Mineralogist 102 (1-2):421-435. https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2017-5823 2017
- Ruth, Dawn C. S., Cottrell, Elizabeth, Cortés, Joaquín A., Kelley, Katherine A., and Calder, Eliza S. 2016. "From Passive Degassing to Violent Strombolian Eruption: the Case of the 2008 Eruption of Llaima Volcano, Chile." Journal of Petrology 57 (9):1833-1864. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egw063 2016
- Birner, Suzanne K., Warren, Jessica M., Cottrell, Elizabeth, and Davis, Fred A. 2016. "Hydrothermal alteration of seafloor peridotites does not influence oxygen fugacity recorded by spinel oxybarometry." Geology 44 (7):535-538. https://doi.org/10.1130/G38113.1 2016
- Zellmer, Georg F., Pistone, Mattia, Iizuka, Yoshiyuki, Andrews, Benjamin J., Gomez-Tuena, Arturo, Straub, Susanne M., and Cottrell, Elizabeth. 2016. "Petrogenesis of antecryst-bearing arc basalts from the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt: Insights into along-arc variations in magma-mush ponding depths, H2O contents, and surface heat flux." American Mineralogist 101 (11):2405-2422. https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2016-5701 2016
- Zhang, H. L., Hirschmann, M. M., Cottrell, Elizabeth, Newville, M., and Lanzirotti, A. 2016. "Structural environment of iron and accurate determination of Fe³ /SFe ratios in andesitic glasses by XANES and Mössbauer spectroscopy." Chemical Geology 428:48-58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2016.02.022 2016
- Brounce, Maryjo, Kelley, Katherine A., Stern, Robert, Martinez, Fernando, and Cottrell, Elizabeth. 2016. "The Fina Nagu volcanic complex: Unusual submarine arc volcanism in the rapidly deforming southern Mariana margin." Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 17 (10):4078-4091. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GC006457 2016
- Grocke, Stephanie B., Cottrell, Elizabeth, de Silva, Shanaka, and Kelley, Katherine A. 2016. "The role of crustal and eruptive processes versus source variations in controlling the oxidation state of iron in Central Andean magmas." Earth and Planetary Science Letters 440:92-104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.01.026 2016
- Siebert, Lee, Cottrell, Elizabeth, Venzke, Edward A., and Andrews, Benjamin J. 2015. "Earth's Volcanoes and Their Eruptions: An Overview." in The Encyclopedia of Volcanoes, edited by Sigurdsson, Haraldur., 2nd ed. 239-255. Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-385938-9.00012-2 2015
- Brounce, Maryjo, Kelley, Katherine A., Cottrell, Elizabeth, and Reagan, Mark K. 2015. "Temporal evolution of mantle wedge oxygen fugacity during subduction initiation." Geology 43 (9):775-778. https://doi.org/10.1130/G36742.1 2015
- McCormick, Brendan, Popp, Christoph, Andrews, Benjamin J., and Cottrell, Elizabeth. 2015. "Ten years of satellite observations reveal highly variable sulphur dioxide emissions at Anatahan Volcano, Mariana Islands." Journal of Geophysical Research. D. Atmospheres 120 (14):7258-7282. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014JD022856 2015
- Le Voyer, Marion, Cottrell, Elizabeth, Kelley, Katherine A., Brounce, Maryjo, and Hauri, Erik H. 2015. "The effect of primary versus secondary processes on the volatile content of MORB glasses: An example from the equatorial Mid-Atlantic Ridge (5°N-3°S)." Journal of Geophysical Research. B. Solid Earth 120 (1):125-144. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014JB011160 2015
- Grocholski, Brent, Shim, Sang-Heon, Cottrell, Elizabeth, and Prakapenka, Vitali B. 2014. "Crystal structure and compressibility of lead dioxide up to 140 GPa." American Mineralogist 99 (1):170-177. https://doi.org/10.2138/am.2014.4596 2014
- Brounce, M. N., Kelley, K. A., and Cottrell, Elizabeth. 2014. "Variations in Fe³/?Fe of Mariana Arc Basalts and Mantle Wedge fO₂." Journal of Petrology 55 (12):2513-2536. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egu065 2014
- Walter, Michael J. and Cottrell, Elizabeth. 2013. "Assessing uncertainty in geochemical models for core formation in Earth." Earth and Planetary Science Letters 365:165-176. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2013.01.014 2013
- Seagle, Christopher T., Cottrell, Elizabeth, Fei, Yingwei, Hummer, Daniel R., and Prakapenka, Vitali B. 2013. "Electrical and thermal transport properties of iron and iron-silicon alloy at high pressure." Geophysical Research Letters 40 (20):5377-5381. https://doi.org/10.1002/2013GL057930 2013
- Cottrell, Elizabeth and Kelley, K. A. 2013. "Redox Heterogeneity in Mid-Ocean Ridge Basalts as a Function of Mantle Source." Science 340 (6138):1314-1317. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1233299 2013
- de Moor, J. M., Fischer, T. P., Sharp, Z. D., King, P. l., Wilke, M., Botcharnikov, R. E., Cottrell, Elizabeth, Zelenski, M., Marty, B., Klimm, K., Rivard, C., Ayalew, D., Ramirez, C., and Kelley, K. A. 2013. "Sulfur degassing at Erta Ale (Ethiopia) and Masaya (Nicaragua) volcanoes: Implications for the degassing processes and oxygen fugacities of basaltic systems." Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 14 (10):4076-4108. https://doi.org/10.1002/ggge.20255 2013
- Kelley, Katherine A. and Cottrell, Elizabeth. 2012. "The influence of magmatic differentiation on the oxidation state of Fe in a basaltic arc magma." Earth and Planetary Science Letters 329-330:109-121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2012.02.010 2012
- Cottrell, Elizabeth and Kelley, Katherine A. 2011. "The oxidation state of Fe in MORB glasses and the oxygen fugacity of the upper mantle." Earth and Planetary Science Letters 305 (3-4):270-282. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2011.03.014 2011
- Cottrell, Elizabeth, Walter, Michael J., and Walker, David. 2010. "Erratum to "Metal-silicate partitioning of tungsten at high pressure and temperature: Implications for equilibrium core formation in Earth" [Earth and Planetary Science Letters 281 (2009) 275-287]." Earth and Planetary Science Letters 289 (3-4):631-634. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2009.11.040 2010
- Ricolleau, Angele, Fei, Yingwei, Cottrell, Elizabeth, Watson, Heather, Deng, Liwei, Zhang, Li, Fiquet, Guillaume, Auzende, Anne-Line, Roskosz, Mathieu, Morard, Guillaume, and Prakapenka, Vitali B. 2009. "Density profile of pyrolite under the lower mantle conditions." Geophysical Research Letters 36:L06302-L06302. https://doi.org/10.1029/2008GL036759 2009
- Cottrell, Elizabeth, Kelley, Katherine A., Lanzirotti, Antonio, and Fischer, Rebecca A. 2009. "High-precision determination of iron oxidation state in silicate glasses using XANES." Chemical Geology 268 (3-4):167-179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2009.08.008 2009
- Cottrell, Elizabeth, Walter, Michael J., and Walker, David. 2009. "Metal-silicate partitioning of tungsten at high pressure and temperature: Implications for equilibrium core formation in Earth." Earth and Planetary Science Letters 281 (3-4):275-287. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2009.02.024 2009
- Castro, Jonathan M., Cottrell, Elizabeth, Tuffen, Hugh, Logan, M. Amelia V., and Kelley, Katherine A. 2009. "Spherulite crystallization induces Fe-redox redistribution in silicic melt." Chemical Geology 268 (3-4):272-280. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2009.09.006 2009
- Kelley, Katherine A. and Cottrell, Elizabeth. 2009. "Water and the Oxidation State of Subduction Zone Magmas." Science 325 (5940):605-607. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1174156 2009
- Chabot, N. L., Campbell, A. J., McDonough, W. F., Draper, D. S., Agee, C. B., Humayun, M., Watson, H. C., Cottrell, Elizabeth, and Saslow, S. A. 2008. "The Fe-C system at 5 GPa and implications for Earth's core." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 72 (16):4146-4158. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2008.06.006 2008
- Jaupart, Claude, Molnar, Peter, and Cottrell, Elizabeth. 2007. "Instability of a chemically dense layer heated from below and overlain by a deep less viscous fluid." Journal of Fluid Mechanics 572:433. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022112006003521 2007
chapter
- Loughlin , S. C., Vye-Brown, C., Sparks, R. S. J., Brown, S. K., Barclay, J., Calder, E., Cottrell, Elizabeth, Jolly, G., Komorowski, J. -C, Mandeville, C., Newhall, C., and P. 2015. "An introduction to global volcanic hazard and risk." in Global Volcanic Hazards and Risk, edited by Loughlin, S. C., Sparks, S., Brown, S. K., Jenkins, S. F., and Vye-Brown, C., 1-80. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316276273.003 2015
- Siebert, Lee, Cottrell, Elizabeth, Venzke, Edward A., and Edwards, Benjamin. 2015. "Catalog of Earth's Documented Holocene Eruptions." in The Encyclopedia of Volcanoes (Second Edition), edited by Sigurdsson, Haraldur., 1367-1400. Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-385938-9.15002-3 2015
- Cottrell, Elizabeth. 2015. "Global Distribution of Active Volcanoes." In Volcanic Hazards, Risks and Disasters. Shroder, John F. and Papale, Paolo, editors. 1–16. Boston, Massachusetts: Elsevier. In Hazards and Disasters Series. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-396453-3.00001-0. 2015
- Brown, S. K., Loughlin, S. C., Sparks, R. S. J., Vye-Brown, C., Barclay, J., Calder, E., Cottrell, Elizabeth, Jolly, G., Komorowski, J-C, Mandeville, C., Newhall, C., and P. 2015. "Global volcanic hazard and risk." in Global Volcanic Hazards and Risk, edited by Loughlin, S. C., Sparks, S., Brown, S. K., Jenkins, S. F., and Vye-Brown, C., 81-172. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316276273.004 2015
conference paper
- Cottrell, Elizabeth, Lascu, Ioan, Andrys, Janine, Ackerson, Michael, Corrigan, Catherine, Farfan, Gabriela, Guice, George, Miller, Matthew, Cole, Selena, Pobiner, Briana, Rasmussen, Daniel, Troch, Juliana, and Tucker, Jonathan. 2022. "Unlearning racism in a federal setting." in American Geophysical Union 2021 Fall Meeting. https://doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10510401.2. 2022

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