Dr. Keith Schilling
Position
- State Geologist of Iowa
- Iowa Geological Survey Director
Research Area
Area of Expertise
- Hydrogeology
- Nonpoint Source Pollution
Affiliations
- University of Iowa
Projects
- Quantifying Organic Nitrogen and Other Suspended Solids at High Resolutions to Investigate Nutrient Transport Patterns in Iowa Rivers (2025)
- Uncovering Soil and Sediment Properties to Inform Saturated Buffer Design (2025)
- Investigating Long-term Nutrient Trends and Short-term Orthophosphate Dynamics in a HUC12 Basin with Extensive Land Use Change (2024)
- Quantifying Nutrient Load Reduction Practices at Multiple Field Sites (2024)
- Two-stage Agricultural Channels in Iowa's Drained Landsape to Improve Water Quality and Long-term Resilience (2024)
- Quantifying nutrient load reduction practices and export at field and landscape scales (2023)
- Evaluating the effectiveness of stacked practices: Utilizing modified blind inlets at terrace sites for N and P load reductions (2022)
- Evaluating the relation of phosphorus to turbidity during high flow events in western Iowa rivers to improve phosphorus load estimates (2022)
- Extending saturated buffers to additional landscape positions (2022)
- Developing design criteria to test a new saturated waterway conservation practice (2021)
- Dam! Impacts of Beaver Dams on Surface and Groundwater Quality (2020)
- Evaluating the Relation of Total Phosphorus to Turbidity During High Flow Events to Improve Quantification of Phosphorus Export from Iowa Rivers (2020)
- Evaluating the Potential for Drainageways to Serve as Test Sites for Innovative Grass Waterway Designs (2019)
- Evaluating the Water Quality Benefits of Reconstructed Multi-purpose Oxbows (2019)
- Watershed-scale Phosphorus Inputs from Streambanks (2019)
- Quantifying the Effects of BMPs on Sediment and Phosphorus Delivery to a Range of Eastern Iowa Rivers (2018)
- Baseline Assessment of Geisler Farm Site: Collection of Pre-BMP Monitoring Data (2017)
- Total Phosphorus Loads in Iowa Rivers and Estimation of Stream Bank Phosphorus Contribution (2017)
- Evaluating the Nutrient Processing Capacity of Roadside Ditches (2016)
- Improving the Capacity to Detect Load Reductions (2016)
- Phosphorus Contributions from Eroding Iowa Stream Banks (2016)
- Identifying and Quantifying Nutrient Reduction Benefits of Restored Oxbows (2015)
- Quantification of Nutrient Reduction Practices Benefits from the Hillslope to the Watershed Scale (2015)
- Measuring the Effectiveness of Stacked Nutrient Reduction Practices (2014)
- Modeling of Nitrate Loads and Concentrations in the Raccoon River (2014)
- Nonpoint Source Nitrogen and Phosphorous Loads at Implementation Scale: Direct Agricultural Nutrient Loads to Surface Waters in Relation to Land Use and Management (2013)
- Phosphorus Transport in Iowa Streams: Importance of Stream Bed and Bank Erosion (2013)