Meeting Venue

The 10^th International Paleolimnology Symposium will be held on the shores of Lake Superior in Duluth, Minnesota – an area of great natural beauty and rich cultural heritage. The conference will be held in the recently-built Harbor Side Convention Center (of the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center - DECC). The Center’s Harbor Side Ballroom,

with its floor-ceiling view of the Duluth Harbor, will be the focal point of our poster sessions, coffee breaks, and social gatherings. The locations for our special events (Lake Superior Railroad Museum and Great Lakes Aquarium), along with shops, restaurants, harbor walkways, hotels, and the shore of the great lake itself, are all within easy walking distance. Duluth weather in late June is frequently sunny and mild, but with ice-cold Lake Superior nearby, anything is possible.

Duluth (population 87,000) is built along 20 miles of steep, rocky cliffside along the westernmost tip of Lake Superior. During the late 19th Century, it became a prosperous port city, with burgeoning mining, lumbering, railroad and shipping industries. Even today the harbor, connected to the Atlantic Ocean through the St. Lawrence Seaway, welcomes over 1,000 freighters annually. Nevertheless, the city is just over one-hour’s drive to more than 1 million acres of untouched wilderness in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. Duluth retains its historic flavor through its museums and architecturally significant neighborhoods, but is also home of 23 city parks and gardens.

All photos courtesy of Duluth Convention & Visitors Bureau and Seaquest Photography