Background
Blake, Irving Hill was born on February 15, 1888 in Augusta, Maine, United States. Son of Fred South(umner) and F(lora) Etta (Chase) Blake.
Blake, Irving Hill was born on February 15, 1888 in Augusta, Maine, United States. Son of Fred South(umner) and F(lora) Etta (Chase) Blake.
Bachelor of Arts, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, 1911. Master of Arts, Brown University, 1912. Doctor of Philisophy, University of Illinois, 1925.
Instructor in zoology Oregon Agricultural College, 1912-1915. Instructor physiology Syracuse University, 1915-1917. Associate professor biology University of Maine, 1917-1923.
Instructor zoology University of Idaho, 1925-1926.
Professor of zoology and anatomy University of Nebraska since 1926, department chairman zoology from 1946. In charge zoology University of Wyoming Science Camp, summers, 1933, 35-36.
Research work Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 1916, Cold Spring Harbor Biological Laboratory, 1912. Travel and field work in animal ecology in Oregon, 1914, Maine, (Northern Appalachians), 1923, Nebraska, 1928-1929, Wyoming (Rocky Mountain forest studies), 1926.
Animal community reconnaissances, 1933, 35, 36, Colorado (slope exposure and high altitude studies) from 1937.
Member American Associate University professors, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Ecological Society of America, Limnol. Society of America, Wildlife Society, Sigma Xi.
Married Abigail M(argaret) Kincaid, August 8, 1917.