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
- 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)
- 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)
- Tidal triggering of microearthquakes over an eruption cycle at 9 degrees 50 ' N East Pacific rise (2018)
- Explosive processes during the 2015 eruption of Axial Seamount, as recorded by seafloor hydrophones (2017)
- Morphometric comparisons between automated and manual karst depression inventories in apalachicola national forest, florida, and mammoth cave national park, kentucky, usa (2017)
- Oyster toadfish (Opsanus tau) boatwhistle call detection and patterns within a large-scale oyster restoration site (2017)
- Use of passive acoustic monitoring to characterize fish spawning behavior and habitat use within a complex mosaic of estuarine habitats (2017)