 Kenneth O. Emery (1914–1998) of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution wrote a classic monograph on Oyster Pond entitled "A Coastal Pond Studied by Oceanographic Methods", published by Elsevier in 1969.The monograph gives a detailed description of the pond in terms of topography, geology, hydrology, and biology.The pond lost all of its oysters in the late 1800s when the pond's entrance to Stage Harbor was filled in to make way for a railroad.