Elizabeth Cottrell
Elizabeth Anna Stevenson (professionally Elizabeth Cottrell) is a geologist and museum curator for the National Museum of Natural History. She is a fellow of both the Geochemical Society and the Mineralogical Society of America.

Personal life 
Cottrell grew up in northern Vermont. Her father was an engineer.

Education 
In 1997, Cottrell received a Bachelor of Science in geochemistry from Brown University. She went on to earn a Ph.D. in environmental science from Columbia in 2004.

Career 
The focus area of her research is largely in Alaska and Oceania, though she works in Washington, D.C. She has also worked as a visiting scientist to ClerVolc from Clermont Auvergne University. Cottrell is best known for her work in the geologic fields of mineralogy and volcanism, especially as it relates to the geochronology of the Earth.

Cottrell currently works as the curator-in-charge of rocks and ores for the National Museum of Natural History, and as the chair of the museum's department of mineral sciences.

Cottrell's career at the Smithsonian Institution has also involved her serving as director of the Global Volcanism Program from 2010 to 2016. She was also a co-director of the NSF Natural Resources REU from 2010 to 2022.

Being an employee of the Smithsonian Institution, she is often featured in the Smithsonian magazine as a geology expert. She has also appeared in other Smithsonian publications and media posts.

The Doctor Is In 
Cottrell is the host of the second season of The Doctor Is In, a video series produced by the Smithsonian Institution.

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American women curators
American mineralogists
Women mineralogists
Women geochemists
American geochemists
American volcanologists
Living people
1975 births
Brown University alumni
Columbia University alumni
University System of Maryland faculty
Smithsonian Institution people
Fellows of the Mineralogical Society of America