2024 Innovators Hall of Fame Inductees
Dr. Timothy Collett
Research Scientist for the
US Geological Survey
Christine Resler
President and CEO of ASRC
Energy Services (AES)
Billy Connor
Director of 绿奴天花板F Arctic
Infrastructure Development
Center
Three exceptional Alaskans were the 2024 inductees in the Alaska Innovators Hall of
Fame. The
Alaska State Committee on Research honored Dr. Timothy Collett, Christine Resler and
Billy Connor
for their work in hydrocarbons, transportation infrastructure, and innovation itself.
The committee is an advisory board formed within the University of Alaska system to
promote
鈥渞esearch and development as an enterprise and as an engine for economic development
in
Alaska.鈥 To further that goal, it established the Alaska Innovators Hall of Fame in
2014,
celebrating both individuals and inventions that 鈥渃ontribute to the state鈥檚 growing
culture of
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Over the past decade, other honorees have included inventors who used spent brewing
grains
to power a steam boiler, one who invented a self-recording snow-depth probe, a man
who
created an innovation competition, and more.
A decade after the first nominees were inducted, the committee announced the class
of 2024. Collett, Resler and Connor were formally inducted at the Innovation Summit
in Juneau
February 27-28, 2024.