Graduation Year
2015
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Geology
Reader 1
Linda Reinen
Reader 2
Karl Lang
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© 2015 Brytne Okuhata
Abstract
As the population on the island of Maui drastically increases, water resource demands continue to rise. In order to match water demands and to manage water resources, it is important to understand streamflow and drainage basin interactions. If relationships between a drainage basin’s hydrologic and geomorphologic characteristics can be quantified, then streamflow conditions of ungaged streams can potentially be estimated. The baseflow recession constant is an important variable to analyze for water management, yet until this study, recession constants were not calculated for the island of Maui, or Hawai‘i as a whole. Recession constants of currently gaged streams on Maui correlated to the permeability and flow conditions of the watersheds. Streams with recession constants >0.95 were generally placed in areas of the island with dike-impounded groundwater and streams with recession constants
Recommended Citation
Okuhata, Brytne, "Utilizing Hydrology and Geomorphology Relationships to Estimate Streamflow Conditions on Maui and O‘Ahu, Hawai‘I" (2015). Scripps Senior Theses. 682.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/682
