Hydrologist, ret.
Currently retired, David Mott’s career as a hydrologist included assignments with the Corps of Engineers, National Park Service and US Forest Service. He also served as director of the US Geological Survey’s Water Science Centers in Wyoming and Oklahoma. He worked on a range of water resource issues including water quality and water rights at Buffalo National River in Arkansas, water supply and energy development issues facing tribes and communities in the west and restoration of landscapes and aquatic communities across the nation.
Mott graduated cum laude from the Missouri State University Geosciences Department and has a master’s degree from the University of Arkansas. He knows Ozarks hydrogeology from the inside out, as he is an avid caver and was once president of the Heart of the Ozarks Grotto. With his wife, Janie, he is working with the Natural Resources Conservation Service to implement ecosystem restoration on his 500 acre farm in northern Arkansas.