education and training
- B.S., Brown University
- Ph.D., Columbia University
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 geochemistry and petrology, volcanology.
Geographic Focus
Background And Education
awards and honors
- Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America, conferred by Mineralogical Society of America, 2016
- 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
co-principal investigator on
investigator on
- The Continental Nursery at Buldir Volcano, Western Aleutian Arc, Alaska, USA awarded by Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Awards 2017
- Partitioning behavior of ferric iron (Fe3+) in Earth’s mantle awarded by Competitive Grants Program for Science 2014
- The role of oxygen fugacity in calc-alkaline differentiation and the creation of continental crust awarded by Competitive Grants Program for Science 2013
- Collaborative Research: An Experimental Determination of the Activity of H2O in Natural Melts at Undersaturated Conditions awarded by National Science Foundation
- Collaborative Research: Chemistry of the Earth's Deep Interior awarded by National Science Foundation
- Collaborative Research: Oxygen Fugacity (i.e., Chemical Activity) in the Upper Mantle: Intercalibration of Upper-Mantle Oxybarometers with State-of-th awarded by National Science Foundation
- Collaborative Research: The role of oxygen fugacity in calc-alkaline differentiation and the creation of continental crust at the Aleutian arc awarded by National Science Foundation
- Creation of a Global Volcano Deformation Database from Space-based Observations for Science and Hazard Assessment awarded by Cornell University
- Earth's Deep Carbon Cycle, I: From Surface to Depth and Back Again awarded by Carnegie Institution of Washington
- MARGINS: Collaborative Research: The Oxidation State of Mariana Arc Magmas and its Relationship to Subduction Volatile and Mass Cycling awarded by National Science Foundation
- REU Site: Natural History Research Experiences awarded by National Science Foundation, REU
- REU Site: Natural History Research Experiences awarded by National Science Foundation, REU
- REU Site: Natural History Research Experiences awarded by National Science Foundation, REU
- Secretariat Support for Reservoirs, Fluxes and Expeditions (REFLEX) Directorate awarded by Carnegie Institution of Washington
- Toward a 4D Global Carbon Circulation Model awarded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Publications
selected publications
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article
- Carbon Fluxes and Primary Magma CO2 Contents Along the Global Mid-Ocean Ridge System. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 20:1387-1424. 2020
- Deep Earth carbon reactions through time and space. American Mineralogist. 105:22-27. 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. 105:244-254. 2020
- The carbon content of Earth and its core. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117:8743-8749. 2020
- The redox budget of the Mariana subduction zone. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 528:115859-115859. 2020
- A Mössbauer-based XANES calibration for hydrous basalt glasses reveals radiation-induced oxidation of Fe. American Mineralogist. 103:489-501. 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. 2018
- Early episodes of high-pressure core formation preserved in plume mantle. Nature. 553:491- . 2018
- Experimental investigation of basalt and peridotite oxybarometers: Implications for spinel thermodynamic models and Fe3 compatibility during generation of upper mantle melts. American Mineralogist. 103:1056-1067. 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. 2018
- 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. 58:2115-2142. 2017
- Crystal-rich lava dome extrusion during vesiculation: An experimental study. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 347:1-14. 2017
- Effect of pressure on Fe3 /SFe ratio in a mafic magma and consequences for magma ocean redox gradients. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta. 204:83-103. 2017
- Forearc Peridotites from Tonga Record Heterogeneous Oxidation of the Mantle following Subduction Initiation. Journal of Petrology. 58:1755-1779. 2017
- Heterogeneity in mantle carbon content from CO2-undersaturated basalts. Nature Communications. 8:14062. 2017
- Revisiting the electron microprobe method of spinel-olivine-orthopyroxene oxybarometry applied to spinel peridotites. American Mineralogist. 102:421-435. 2017
- From Passive Degassing to Violent Strombolian Eruption: the Case of the 2008 Eruption of Llaima Volcano, Chile. Journal of Petrology. 57:1833-1864. 2016
- Hydrothermal alteration of seafloor peridotites does not influence oxygen fugacity recorded by spinel oxybarometry. Geology. 44:535-538. 2016
- 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. 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. 101:2405-2422. 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. 2016
- The Fina Nagu volcanic complex: Unusual submarine arc volcanism in the rapidly deforming southern Mariana margin. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 17:4078-4091. 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. 2016
- Temporal evolution of mantle wedge oxygen fugacity during subduction initiation. Geology. 43:775-778. 2015
- Ten years of satellite observations reveal highly variable sulphur dioxide emissions at Anatahan Volcano, Mariana Islands. Journal of Geophysical Research. Atmospheres. 120:7258-7282. 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: Solid Earth. 120:125-144. 2015
- Crystal structure and compressibility of lead dioxide up to 140 GPa. American Mineralogist. 99:170-177. 2014
- Variations in Fe3+/?Fe of Mariana Arc Basalts and Mantle Wedge fO2. Journal of Petrology. 55:2513-2536. 2014
- Assessing uncertainty in geochemical models for core formation in Earth. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 365:165-176. 2013
- Electrical and thermal transport properties of iron and iron-silicon alloy at high pressure. Geophysical Research Letters. 40:5377-5381. 2013
- Redox Heterogeneity in Mid-Ocean Ridge Basalts as a Function of Mantle Source. Science. 340:1314-1317. 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. 14:4076-4108. 2013
- 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. 2012
- The oxidation state of Fe in MORB glasses and the oxygen fugacity of the upper mantle. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 305:270-282. 2011
- Erratum to 'Metal-silicate partitioning of tungsten at high pressure and temperature: Implications for equilibrium core formation in Earth's[Earth and Planetary Science Letters 281 (2009) 275-287]. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 289:631-634. 2010
- Density profile of pyrolite under the lower mantle conditions. Geophysical Research Letters. 36:L06302-L06302. 2009
- High-precision determination of iron oxidation state in silicate glasses using XANES. Chemical Geology. 268:167-179. 2009
- Metal-silicate partitioning of tungsten at high pressure and temperature: Implications for equilibrium core formation in Earth. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 281:275-287. 2009
- Spherulite crystallization induces Fe-redox redistribution in silicic melt. Chemical Geology. 268:272-280. 2009
- Water and the Oxidation State of Subduction Zone Magmas. Science. 325:605-607. 2009
- The Fe-C system at 5 GPa and implications for Earth%26#39;s core. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta. 72:4146-4158. 2008
- Instability of a chemically dense layer heated from below and overlain by a deep less viscous fluid. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 572:433. 2007
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chapter
- An introduction to global volcanic hazard and risk. 1-80. 2015
- Catalog of Earth's Documented Holocene Eruptions. 1367-1400. 2015
- Earth's Volcanoes and Their Eruptions: An Overview. 239-255. 2015
- Global volcanic hazard and risk. 81-172. 2015
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