Thomas Pingel's Official Webpage

I'm from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, so I made a map of the flood extent. [pdf], [jpg]
I'm building a software-based Scoring Box for fencing.
Watch me rebuild my jeep
I like to listen to Car Talk
I fence at the UCSB Fencing Club
Time to do a little research
See what is for lunch.
Got earthquakes?
Data can be used as either a singular or plural noun. See why. And stop being such a snob.
Hey, what's the weather like?
The Dubin Learning Center

Welcome to Thomas Pingel's Official Webpage

Contact Information

Trailer 942 (by Webb Hall), Rm 1002 [map]
UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4060

Papers

Pingel, Thomas and Keith C. Clarke. "Assessing the Usability of a Wearable Computer for Outdoor Pedestrian Navigation." Proceedings of AutoCarto 2005. Las Vegas, NV, 2005. [pdf]

Pingel, Thomas. "The Military Metaphor in Computer Network Defenses." Univeristy of California: Santa Barbara, 2004. [pdf]

Pingel, Thomas. "Key Defensive Terrain in Cyberspace: A Geographic Perspective." Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Politics and Information Systems: Technologies and Applications. Orlando, FL, 2003. 159-63. [pdf]

Teaching

Current	Geography 12 - Maps and Mapping
Past Courses	3A & 3B (Physical Geography), 5 (Human Geography), 12 (Maps and Mapping), 108E (Urban Economic Geography), 110 (Meteorology), 112 (Environmental Hydrology), 156 (Great Cities), 176a (Intro GIS), 187 (Idea of Nature), 188 (Environmental Ethics), 210B (Environmental Data Analysis)

Research

Current	My Matlab Functions Spatial Strategy Impacts of sea level rise on coastal aquifers modeling project
Past Projects	Matlab Helper Project Wearable Computing Jim Proctor's Environmentalism, Science, and Religion Project