Del uses geospatial analytics to investigate a wide range of interdisciplinary problems related to seafloor exploration, earthquake science and passive underwater acoustics. He develops algorithms and remote sensing technologies to chart the geology and biology of the seafloor, detect and analyze seismic hazards and study underwater sound and its ecological implications. Other interests include archaeological geophysics, specifically the use of shallow geophysical imaging techniques in archaeological prospection and forensics.

Roles
Publications
- Crustal Strength Variations Inferred From Earthquake Stress Drop at Axial Seamount Surrounding the 2015 Eruption (2020)
- Revised Magmatic Source Models for the 2015 Eruption at Axial Seamount Including Estimates of Fault-Induced Deformation (2020)
- Wealth in people and the value of historic Oberlin Cemetery, Raleigh, North Carolina (2020)
- A 4000-year record of hydrologic variability from the Olympic Mountains, Washington, USA (2019)
- Acoustic evidence of a long-lived gas-driven submarine volcanic eruption in the Bismarck Sea (2019)
- Fish community structure, habitat complexity, and soundscape characteristics of patch reefs in a tropical, back-reef system (2019)
- Mid-Ocean Ridge Seismicity (2019)
- Repeated megaturbidite deposition in Lake Crescent, Washington, USA, triggered by Holocene ruptures of the Lake Creek-Boundary Creek fault system (2019)
- Mechanics of fault reactivation before, during, and after the 2015 eruption of Axial Seamount (2018)
- The recent volcanic history of axial seamount geophysical insights into past eruption dynamics with an eye toward enhanced observations of future eruptions (2018)