Benjamin J Siebers

Painting (watercolor and ink) depicting the 117 species of plants found in and around a mine site that are utilized by the tribal community in northern Arizona.

Painting (gouache painting) depicting the Blue Mesa Reservoir during a year of low precipitation totals and the resulting cyanobacteria distribution.

Painting (gouache painting) depicting the Blue Mesa Reservoir during a year with relatively greater levels of precipitation and the resulting cyanobacteria distribution.

Anniston: Toxic Legacy, Reclaimed future. – Painting (gouache painting) depicts the PCB contamination embedded in the community and ecosystems of Anniston, Alabama and the restoration work taking place to through U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Geological Survey Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration (NRDAR), and U.S.

Painting (gouache painting) is a generalized schematic view, not to scale, through the Grand Canyon with the Colorado River in the center, an unmined breccia pipe on the left side, and the Orphan Mine and associated breccia pipe on the right side. Dashed lines show a conceptual understanding of how water may interact with the Orphan Mine.

Top view of Havasupai Falls, its aquamarine colored water is highly recognizable and it is a site of tribal, cultural, and recreational significance to the greater Grand Canyon region.

Ben Siebers presents his Art of Science illustration series at the Upper Midwest Water Science Center face-to-face meeting.

Illustration (ink) depicting Delavan Lake and its dynamic water quality response to watershed changes, along with the associated monitoring efforts.

Artistic rendition of the mineral lifecycle from a natural state through to exploration, permitting, mining, and reclamation. Designed for the Minerals Lifecycle Integrated Science Team to depict one aspect of their science focus.

Part of a series of small inset drawings, this is quite simply, an Elk. The backdrop is that of pinyon pine and Red Butte.

This is a loosely drawn illustration of two hikers on the trail. It was drawn for the final page of a fact sheet and intended for text overlay. The text primarily indicates avenues of further study and next steps of the project.

This is a small inset drawing of a truck traveling a haul road from a mine site.  It is a southwestern landscape, and depicts dust kicked from the road and becoming airborne over the surrounding vegetation and landscape.

Part of a series of small inset drawings, this is of a sign located near Horn Creek. The Creek is contaminated with high levels of Uranium. Sign states: "Horn Creek, Danger, Contaminated Water, Do Not Drink! Water in Horn Creek exceeds EPA health standards for radioactivity"

Created for a fact sheet on the implications of breccia pipe Uranium mining in the Grand Canyon region, this drawing packs a significant amount of information into a single image.

Part of a series of small inset drawings, this is a top view of Havasupai Falls, its aquamarine colored water is highly recognizable and it is a site of tribal, cultural, and recreational significance to the greater Grand Canyon region.

Green Lake is the deepest natural lake in Wisconsin. The drawing relates the water-quality response of Green Lake, with emphasis on the Metalimnetic Oxygen Minima, to total phosphorus loading from its watershed. The drawing depicts data collection, analysis, modeling, and real-time monitoring.

This image was drawn for a fact sheet on Uranium mining in the Grand Canyon region, but was ultimately unused.  It still has utility to serve as inspiration to those who want to form ideas on how their science can be represented.  The image is quite literally, a view into the Grand Canyon.  But on a deeper level also is a conglomerate of both the geol

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regulates uranium mill tailings under the Uranium Mill Tailings Control Act of 1978. This drawing is a straight-forward cross sectional schematic of the different types of mill tailing covers.

Great Lakes tributaries are influenced by a multitude of stressors that may cause adverse ecological effects. The drawing represents 5 of the many significant chemicals effecting the ecosystems – Atrazine, Deet, BPA, Metolachlor, and 4-nonylphenol.

The Winnebago Pool is a chain of 4 shallow lakes in Wisconsin. The drawing relates real-time monitoring as well as sampling that took place on the lakes, the agricultural factors affecting the nutrient loading of the pool, and the importance of the Winnebago Pool fishery.

Great Lakes tributaries deliver pathogens from many different sources. This drawing represents the various sources of these pathogens along with hydrologic, land cover, and season patterns by which they enter the Great Lakes tributaries. It references the virus sampling that took place with the backdrop based largely on the Milwaukee, WI.