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Kenneth O. Emery (June 6, 1914 - April 12, 1998) was a professor of geology at the University of Southern California for sixteen years and from 1962 until his death was a scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Emery attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where his mentor was Francis Parker Shepard, and in 1939 he received his M.S. in geology. For the next two years, Emery concentrated on his PhD research on the California continental margins at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla. He received his PhD in 1941. From 1943-1945, Emery worked for the University of California Division of War Research. In 1962, he came to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, where he was Dean.

The Emery Rod Method for measuring beach and dune profiles is named after him. Emery was the author of 15 books and author or coauthor of 290 papers and he was one of the few oceanographers elected to the National Academy of Sciences.