Barbara Hibbs Blake

Barbara Jo Hibbs was born in Roseburg, Oregon, the daughter of Gordon Reid Hibbs and Marybelle Hauskins Hibbs (later Ramsby).{{Cite web|url=https://www.ancestry.com/1940-census/usa/Oregon/Barbara-Jo-Hibbs_247qkr|title=Barbara Jo Hibbs in the 1940 Census|website=Ancestry|language=en|access-date=2019-12-28}} Her mother was a nurse.

She graduated from Portland State University in 1959,{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41234560/blakehibbs/|title=Blake-Hibbs|last=Nattkemper|first=Jane|date=1962-12-10|work=The Terre Haute Tribune|access-date=2019-12-28|pages=5|via=Newspapers.com}} and completed doctoral studies at Yale University in 1967.{{Cite web|url=https://www.greensboro.com/obituaries/blake-barbara-hibbs/article_a04503bf-738c-5a1b-b1e6-d0cdcff84708.html|title=Blake, Barbara Hibbs|date=August 25, 2019|website=Greensboro News and Record|language=en|access-date=2019-12-28}}{{Cite web|url=https://yalealumnimagazine.com/obituaries/4994-barbara-hibbs-blake-67phd|title=In Remembrance: Barbara Hibbs Blake '67PhD|website=Yale Alumni Magazine|access-date=2019-12-28}} Her dissertation under entomologist Charles Lee Remington{{Cite journal|last=Gall|first=Lawrence F.|date=1995|title=Notulae Remingtonio Oblatae|url=http://images.peabody.yale.edu/lepsoc/jls/1990s/1995/1995-49(4)259-Gall.pdf|journal=Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society|volume=49|pages=262, Table 1}} was titled "A comparative study of energy and water conservation throughout the annual cycle in ground dwelling Sciuridae."{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7dkgAQAAIAAJ&q=Barbara+Hibbs+Blake&pg=PA130|title=Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series|date=January–June 1968|publisher=Copyright Office, Library of Congress|pages=130|language=en}}

Blake was a mammalogist. Her physiology research resulted in articles including "The annual cycle and fat storage in two populations of golden-mantled ground squirrels" (Journal of Mammalogy 1972),{{Cite journal|last=Blake|first=Barbara Hibbs|date=1972-03-24|title=The annual cycle and fat storage in two populations of golden-mantled ground squirrels|url=https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/article/53/1/157/904075|journal=Journal of Mammalogy|language=en|volume=53|issue=1|pages=157–167|doi=10.2307/1378836|issn=0022-2372|jstor=1378836|pmid=5016678}} "The effects of kidney structure and the annual cycle on water requirements in golden-mantled ground squirrels and chipmunks" (Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Physiology 1977),{{Cite journal|last=Blake|first=Barbara Hibbs|date=1977-01-01|title=The effects of kidney structure and the annual cycle on water requirements in golden-mantled ground squirrels and chipmunks|journal=Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Physiology|volume=58|issue=4|pages=413–419|doi=10.1016/0300-9629(77)90165-7|issn=0300-9629}} and "Reproduction of Asian chipmunks (Tamias sibiricus) in captivity" (Zoo Biology 1984, with K. E. Gillett).{{Cite journal|last1=Blake|first1=Barbara H.|last2=Gillett|first2=K. Elizabeth|date=1984|title=Reproduction of Asian chipmunks (Tamias sibiricus) in captivity|journal=Zoo Biology|language=en|volume=3|issue=1|pages=47–63|doi=10.1002/zoo.1430030106|issn=0733-3188}} In her later work, she studied the vocalizations of voles, in "Ultrasonic vocalization and body temperature maintenance in infant voles of three species (Rodentia: Arvicolidae)" (Developmental Psychobiology 1992),{{Cite journal|last=Blake|first=Barbara H.|date=1992|title=Ultrasonic vocalization and body temperature maintenance in infant voles of three species (Rodentia: Arvicolidae)|url=https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/ultrasonic-vocalization-body-temperature-maintenance-infant-voles-three-species-rodentia-arvicolidae/|journal=Developmental Psychobiology|language=en-GB|volume=25|issue=8|pages=581–596|doi=10.1002/dev.420250805|pmid=1487083}} and "Ultrasonic calling in isolated infant prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) and montane voles (M. montanus)" (Journal of Mammalogy 2002).{{Cite journal|last=Blake|first=Barbara H.|date=2002-05-01|title=Ultrasonic calling in isolated infant prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) and montane voles (M. montanus)|url=https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/article/83/2/536/2373318|journal=Journal of Mammalogy|language=en|volume=83|issue=2|pages=536–545|doi=10.1644/1545-1542(2002)083<0536:UCIIIP>2.0.CO;2|s2cid=84861232 |issn=0022-2372|doi-access=free}}

Blake worked at Drew University,{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41234109/environmentalists_back_in_action/|title=Environmentalists Back in Action|date=1970-10-01|work=The Herald-News|access-date=2019-12-28|pages=29|via=Newspapers.com}} Queen Mary College, Bennett College, and University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She was a member of the science professional fraternity Sigma Xi, and of the American Society of Mammalogists. From the latter organization, she received the Hartley H.T. Jackson Award in 2007. She was editor in chief of the Journal of Mammalogy.

Barbara Hibbs married Anthony Groverman Blake Jr. in 1962. They had daughters Virginia and Elizabeth (Eliza). Barbara Hibbs Blake died in 2019, aged 82 years, in Lincoln, Massachusetts. There is an Anthony and Barbara Blake Scholarship Fund at Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina.{{Cite web|url=http://www.giving.guilford.edu/s/1833/interior.aspx?sid=1833&gid=2&pgid=1276|title=In Memoriam: Barbara Blake, Warren Nichols '59, Tommy Grayson '68|website=Guilford College Office of Advancement and Alumni Relations|language=en|access-date=2019-12-28}}

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