Cottrell, Elizabeth

Chair, Department of Mineral Sciences; Research Geologist; Curator, National Rock Collection

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Cottrell, Elizabeth

Chair, Department of Mineral Sciences; Research Geologist; Curator, National Rock Collection

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

Positions

Curator-in-Charge, National Rock and Ore Collections 2017 -
Department Chair, NMNH - Dept. of Mineral Sciences , National Museum of Natural History 2022 -
co-Director, NSF REU Site: Natural History Research Experiences 2010 - 2022
Director, Global Volcanism Program (Smithsonian) , National Museum of Natural History 2010 - 2016

Geographic Focus

Alaska State or Province
Oceania Transnational Region

Background And Education

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

Geochemical Fellow, conferred by Geochemical Society , 2023
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

Research And Grants

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Publications

Selected Publications

Article
- Birner, Suzanne K., Cottrell, Elizabeth, Davis, Fred A., and Warren, Jessica M. 2024. "Deep, hot, ancient melting recorded by ultralow oxygen fugacity in peridotites." Nature, 631, (8022) 801–807. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07603-w. 2024
- Holycross, Megan, Cottrell, Elizabeth, Ague, Jay, Lanzirotti, Antonio, and Newville, Matthew. 2024. "Fe Kα XANES, Fe Kβ HERFD XANES and EPMA flank method determinations of the oxidation state of Fe in garnet." Chemical Geology, 647. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2024.121937. 2024
- Zhang, Hongluo L., Hirschmann, Marc M., Lord, Oliver T., Rosenthal, Anja, Yaroslavtsev, Sergey, Cottrell, Elizabeth, Chumakov, Alexandr I., and Walter, Michael J. 2024. "Ferric iron stabilization at deep magma ocean conditions." Science Advances, 10, (42). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adp1752. 2024
- Andrys, Janine L., Cottrell, Elizabeth, Kelley, Katherine A., Waters, Laura E., and Coombs, Michelle L. 2024. "Insights on Arc Magmatic Systems Drawn from Natural Melt Inclusions and Crystallization Experiments at PH2O =800 MPa under Oxidizing Conditions." Journal of Petrology, https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egae117. 2024
- Holycross, Megan and Cottrell, Elizabeth. 2023. "Garnet crystallization does not drive oxidation at arcs." Science, 380, (6644) 506–509. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ade3418. 2023
- Jackson, Colin R. M. and Cottrell, Elizabeth. 2023. "Nitrogen partitioning between silicate phases and aqueous fluid depends on concentration." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 354 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2023.05.017. 2023
- Muth, Michelle J. and Cottrell, Elizabeth. 2023. "No detectable redox exchange between sulfur and iron during rapid cooling of basalts." Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 616. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118210. 2023
- Lopez, Taryn, Fischer, Tobias P., Plank, Terry, Malinverno, Alberto, Rizzo, Andrea L., Rasmussen, Daniel J., Cottrell, Elizabeth, Werner, Cynthia, Kern, Christoph, Bergfeld, Deborah, Ilanko, Tehnuka, Andrys, Janine L., and Kelley, Katherine A. 2023. "Tracking carbon from subduction to outgassing along the Aleutian-Alaska Volcanic Arc." Science Advances, 9, (26). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adf3024. 2023
- Pistone, Mattia, Formo, Eric, Whittington, Alan G., Herbst, Thomas, and Cottrell, Elizabeth. 2022. "Direct nanoscale observations of degassing-induced crystallisation in felsic magmas." Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 177, (3). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-022-01900-1. 2022
- 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). 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, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-00904-7. 2022
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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, 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
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- 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. Loughlin, S. C., Sparks, S., Brown, S. K., Jenkins, S. F., and Vye-Brown, C., editors. 1–80. Cambridge: 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). Sigurdsson, Haraldur, editor. 1367–1400. Amsterdam: Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-385938-9.15002-3. 2015
- 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. 2nd ed. Sigurdsson, Haraldur, editor. 239–255. Amsterdam: Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-385938-9.00012-2. 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. Loughlin, S. C., Sparks, S., Brown, S. K., Jenkins, S. F., and Vye-Brown, C., editors. 81–172. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316276273.004. 2015

Cottrell, Elizabeth

Chair, Department of Mineral Sciences; Research Geologist; Curator, National Rock Collection

Cottrell, Elizabeth

Chair, Department of Mineral Sciences; Research Geologist; Curator, National Rock Collection

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