Conference Details
2024 Upper Midwest Invasive Species (UMISC) Conference
November 12-14, 2024 Duluth Entertainment Convention Center
Duluth, Minnesota & Online Attendance Option
MISAC has hosted conferences across the state with the goal of comprehensively addressing invasive species research, prevention, and management challenges.
Conferences topics cover the range of invasive species, including aquatic and terrestrial invasive plants, animals, and pathogens. Topics have included new and innovative research, management techniques, outreach initiatives, Cooperative Weed Management Areas, technological developments, prevention and containment, early detection and rapid response, eradication, and post-invasion restoration.
Attendees of the conferences have included researchers, land managers, natural resource professionals, university personnel, landscapers, nursery, agricultural or forestry employees, environmental specialists, lake association members, and agency and non-governmental organizations.
Information about previous UMISC conferences, including programs and presentations can be found by clicking the following links:
2022 UMISC Conference, October 25-27, 2022 Green Bay, WI 2020 UMISC Conference, November 2-6, 2020 Virtual
2018 UMISC Conference, October 15-18, 2018, Rochester, MN
2016 UMISC Conference, October 16-19, 2016, La Crosse, WI
2014 UMISC Conference, October 20-22, 2014, Duluth, MN
2012 UMISC Conference, October 29-31, 2012, La Crosse, WI