Del is an Associate Professor in the Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. He uses geophysical principles to investigate a wide range of interdisciplinary problems.  His interests include: seafloor exploration – using ship-based and remotely operated technologies to chart the geology and biology of the seafloor; earthquake science – detection, location and statistical analysis of seismicity, seismic hazards and tectonics; passive underwater acoustics – investigations of underwater sound and its ecological implications; archaeological geophysics – use of shallow geophysical imaging techniques in archaeological prospection and forensics.

Roles

• Fellows

Publications

• Explosive processes during the 2015 eruption of Axial Seamount, as recorded by seafloor hydrophones (2017)
• Explosive processes during the 2015 eruption of Axial Seamount, as recorded by seafloor hydrophones (2017)
• Use of passive acoustic monitoring to characterize fish spawning behavior and habitat use within a complex mosaic of estuarine habitats (2017)
• Morphometric comparisons between automated and manual karst depression inventories in apalachicola national forest, florida, and mammoth cave national park, kentucky, usa (2017)
• Seismic constraints on caldera dynamics from the 2015 Axial Seamount eruption (2016)
• Variation in habitat soundscape characteristics influences settlement of a reef-building coral (2016)
• Temporal soundscape patterns and processes in an estuarine reserve (2016)
• Soundscapes and larval settlement: Characterizing the stimulus from a larval perspective (2016)
• Soundscapes and larval settlement: larval bivalve responses to habitat-associated underwater sounds (2016)
• The curious acoustic behavior of estuarine snapping shrimp: Temporal patterns of snapping shrimp sound in sub-tidal oyster reef habitat (2016)

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