This tranquil office portrait of K.O. Emery belies a career that took him around the world for studies encompassing the broad Atlantic basin, submarine geology off southern California, Bikini Atoll, Hawaiian beach rocks, the East China Sea, and the Persian Gulf. He worked aboard many research vessels and dove in Alvin and DSRV Ben Franklin. He also ventured forth in a rowboat to do research for a book on Falmouth’s Oyster Pond, which bordered his back yard. It’s called A Coastal Pond Studied by Oceanographic Methods. (Photo by Bill Lambert)

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