2024 Great Lakes Beach Association Conference

Oct 1-3 2024

Grand Portage, MN

Join us on October 1-3 in Grand Portage, MN, on the Grand Portage Reserve for the 22nd Annual Great Lakes Beach Association (GLBA) Conference. 

The conference will be held in at the Grand Portage Lodge and Casino.

We are accepting abstract submissions for oral presentations and posters, due August 15, 2024. Details and submission form below.

Conference registration are coming soon.

Questions? Contact Margaret Watkins (mwatkins@grandportage.com) or Taryn Manthey (Tmanthey@grandportage.com)

Conference Registration

Price guides for attendees and for field trips.

$100 attendees

$25 students

Field trips: there will be an optional pre-conference all day boat trip to Isle Royale on Monday September 30th, with presentations from the Grand Portage Tribe on cooperative natural resource projects with the National Park Service, and a history of ownership of Isle Royale.

Call for Abstracts for Posters and Oral IS NOW OPEN

We are accepting abstract for oral presentations and posters now through August 15, 2024.

Categories include:

• Laboratory technologies and rapid detection methods

• Harmful algal blooms in the Great Lakes

• Microbial mitigation strategies and case studies

• Microbial source tracking and risk-based decision making

• Beach safety, dangerous currents, and beach notification systems

• Trash mitigation and microplastics in the Great Lakes

• Community Science

• Indigenous-led monitoring and Traditional Ecological Knowledge

• Public engagement and communications

• Predicative modelling

Grand Portage Lodge and Casino

Conference and Accommodation details

Location : Grand Portage Lodge and Casino, 70 Casino Dr., Grand Portage, MN

Room rate : $107 USD

Web: https://www.grandportage.com/

Phone: 1-800-543-1384

There is a room block. The rooms and room rates are blocked under the “Great Lakes Beach Association.”

Check back often for room block details and updates.

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Contact

Questions?

Margaret Watkins (mwatkins@grandportage.com )

Taryn Manthey (Tmanthey@grandportage.com)