In late May, I traveled to Beijing and Hong Kong with the Managing Editor of ES&T (Matt Hotze) and the Deputy Editor of ES & T Letters (Bruce Logan) to learn more about the environmental challenges facing a rapidly growing Asia and to identify concrete steps that our journals could take to better serve the needs of this important research community, We gave public lectures at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in which we explained the inner workings of the journals and presented overviews of our own research. But mostly we listened. We listened to graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and junior professors express their opinions about emerging research topics. We listened to senior researchers in China as they shared their insights into research needed to alleviate problems caused by industrial pollution. And we listened to the journals' Asian editors and editorial advisory board members as they gave us advice about how we could better engage the region's research expertise.
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