JGR Editor Goertz killed in Iowa

Abstract

JGR‐Space Physics editor Christoph K. Goertz, two other professors, a student, and an administrator were killed and an administration staff member was critically wounded in a tragic shooting spree at the University of Iowa on November 1.Victims Goertz, Dwight R. Nicholson, Linhua Shan, and Robert A. Smith were all AGU members. Goertz was currently serving as JGR‐Space Physics editor. He had served as associate editor of Journal of Geophysical Research from 1979–1983, and associate editor of Geophysical Research Letters from 1982–1988. He joined the SPR‐Magnetospheric Physics section of AGU in 1976.