My Trip to Vienna, Austria

Blut wurst (blood sausage), hanchen (chicken), sauerkraut, Schinken (ham), Semmel Knodel (like dumplings) und gurken salat (cucumber salad), great food!

Schloss Schonbrunn, summer palace of the Hapsburg family of 4

Glaciers retreating all over Austria and the world...

Natural History Museum

Art History Museum

Most famous Kaiser of Austria

Old Roman walls and drainage canals from past centuries underneath the city

The Hapsburg's main palace, Hofburg

Inside one of the many catholic churches in Vienna

St. Stephen's Cathedral, one of the most impressive and beautiful in Europe I think. Underneath are catacombs where thousands of dried bones are left over from the black plague

View of Vienna city center from high up in the Wiener Wald

1700 view of Vienna from Belvedere Garden

Pieter Brugel's painting of the Tower of Babel (Dutch)

Palace at Belvedere Garden

Hundertwasser Haus, the architect's name..

My friend Vivien, ex-UW exchangie from France

View from the office of a graduate student at TU Wien

Technical University of Vienna

Austrian National Library

Butterfly house.

Steinway Pianos are made in Vienna.

Karl's Dom

Flight from Vienna to Zurich over the northern edge of the Alps.

What really happens when the cabin depressurizes

One Month of Field work Shesh

At the clinic.

The countries largest Mosque in Dhaka.

I felt very welcomed this time.

At a wedding in the village.

My friend Milton.

The top of the waterfall.

This girl is 15 and a friend of mine. She is one of the many kids at Char Para who takes great interest in us western student researchers, learning English from us and teaching us words of Bangali. She got married this week to a 25 year old guy from another village.

We flooded this, then empty, pond to simulate a major rainfall event, and found that E. coli levels in the adjacent shallow monitoring wells responded in a classic contaminant pulse, indicating that fecal bacteria were penetrating >8 m laterally into the aquifer. It is common practice to drill shall drinking water wells next to ponds such as these.

The results!

Nice house in Dhaka.

Babu, our amazing driver, and Palash ordering American fast food for the first time. The studied the menu for a while and we ended up going with the Awesome burger.