Schilling's interests include surface and groundwater interaction, land use/land cover change, watershed modeling, nutrient fate and transport, sediment erosion and transport, floodplain processes, ecohydrology, time-series analysis and biogeochemistry.

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https://now.uiowa.edu/2015/02/farmers-can-better-prevent-nutrient-runoff-based-land-characteristics