Benjamin J Siebers

Watercolor painting of wildlife at Horseshoe Springs, Utah including largemouth bass, common carp, great blue heron, cinnamon teal, spotted sandpiper, black-necked stilt, American avocet, northern harrier.

Watercolor painting of a bison on a prairie with culturally significant prairie plant species in the foreground.

Oil painting of USGS Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center (GCMRC) surveying a sandbar monitoring site on the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park.

Oil painting of USGS monitoring Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center (GCMRC) Sandbar Monitoring trip on the Colorado River with Diamond Peak overlooking.

Watercolor painting of a bison on a prairie with culturally significant prairie plant species in the foreground.

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.

Mineral production lifecycle from exploration through reclamation.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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"

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.