Chela-Flores, J. (1996) Habitability of Europa: possible degree of evolution of Europan biota. Europa Ocean Conference at San Juan Capistrano Research Institute. San Juan Capistrano, California,USA. 12-14 November, pp. 21-21a.
Chela-Flores, J. (1999). Testing the Drake Equation in the Solar Sysem. Invited talk at the 6th International Conference on Bioastronomy (IAU Colloquium): A New Era in the Search for Life in the Universe. August 2-6. Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel, Kohala Coast, Hawaii, USA.
Chela-Flores, J., P. Del Negro, S. Predonzani, S. Fonda Umani and C. P. McKay (2005) Instrumentation for the detection of biosignatures on Europa. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2005 (EGU05), Session GI3: Space Instrumentation. Vienna, Austria, 24 - 29 April 2005. Geophysical Research Abstracts. Vol. 7, 03984, 2005, SRef-ID: 1607-7962/gra/EGUO5-A-03984, European Geosciences Union 2005.
Chela-Flores, J. (2007) Life habitability in the solar system: testing the universality of biology on Europa with microprobes or landers. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 9, 03863, 2007, SRef-ID: 1607-7962/gra/EGU2007-A-03863, European Geosciences Union 2007. Austria Center Vienna, Lecture room Lecture Room 75, Thursday, 19 April 2007, 13:45.
Blanc, M., The LAPLACE Consortium (2) (2008) LAPLACE: a mission to Europa and the Jupiter System for ESA's Cosmic Vision Programme, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 10, EGU2008-A-00000, 2008, EGU General Assembly 2008.
Chela-Flores, J., Kumar, N., Seckbach, J., Tewari, V. C. (2008) Distinguishing between signatures of past life and nonlife. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 10, EGU2008-A-01158, 2008 EGU General Assembly 2008.
Jerse, G., Messerotti, M., Gregorio, A., Chela-Flores, J. (2008) A Tentative Estimate of Space Paleoclimate Relevant to the Geospace in an Astrobiological Framework. Committee on Space Research, 37th COSPAR Scientific Assembly,
Seckbach, J. Oren, A. Chela-Flores, J. (2008) The extreme environments and their microbes as models for extraterrestrial life. (Abstract EPSC2008-A-00576), 3rd European Planetary Science Congress. The Institute for Planetology of the Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster, Germany, 21 - 26 September.
Chela-Flores, J. , Bhattacherjee, A. B., Dudeja, S., Kumar, N. and Seckbach, J. (2009) Can the biogenicity of Europa's surfical sulfur be tested simultaneously with penetrators and ion traps? Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 11, EGU2009-0, 2009, EGU General Assembly 2009. The Austria Centre, Vienna, 22 April.
Chela-Flores, J. (2009) L'origine della vita nell'universo, Darwin, e la Scienza Moderna. UNESCO Office, Palazzo Zorzi,Venice 29 April 15:00 - 18:00.
Chela-Flores, J. (2010a). Can a future mission detect a habitable ecosystem on Europa, or Ganymede? Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol.12, EGU2010-0, 2010, EGU General Assembly 2010. The Austria Centre, Vienna, Friday 7th May 2010, 16.45-17.00 ; ppts of the talk.
Chela-Flores, J. (2010c). Alla ricerca della vita in ambienti estremi:L’Antartide e i satelliti Galileani di Giove. Convegno "Esplorare l'estremo", Giornate organizzate dalla sezione di Trieste del Museo Nazionale dell’Antartide, Universita di Trieste, Sede del Convegno: Lega Navale Italiana, 21 maggio.
Chela-Flores, J. (2010b). Are there habitable ecosystems in Europa and Ganymede? 3rd Workshop of the Italian Astrobiology Society, "When Darwin meets Copernicus". Duino Castle (Duino-Aurisina, Trieste, Italy), 26 - 28 May.
Chela-Flores, J. (2010d). L’astrobiologia: Fisica alla ricerca della vita nell’universo. XXIV Olimpiade Italiana della Fiisica, Trieste, 28 maggio 2010.
Chela-Flores, J (2011). Distribucion de la vida en el Sistema Solar: Un problema de las ciencias físicas, de la tierra y de la vida. Seminar. Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Republica Bolivariana de Venezuela, 30 March.
Chela Flores, J. (2011) Evolutionary biomarkers on the icy galilean satellites: from bacteria to metazoans. Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 13, EGU2011-1219, 2011 EGU General Assembly Vienna, Austria from 03 – 08 April, pdfs, ppts
Chela-Flores, J. (2012a) The search for extraterrestrial life in our solar system: The role of particle physics and space sciences in one of astrobiology’s major objectives. Closing Lecture at The International Doctorate Network in Particle Physics and Cosmology (University of Udine, 23 January-3 February 2012).
Chela Flores, J. (2012b) Landing on the Moon’s farside: What are the geochemistry, astrobiology and instrumental issues? Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 14, General Assembly 2012, Vienna, Austria from 23 – 27 April.
Bhattacherjee , A. B.,
Chela-Flores, J. and Dudeja, S. (2013). From
Chemical Evolution On Earth to Instrumentation Issues
For Testing Systems Astrobiology On Exo-Worlds. International
Workshop
on Chemical
Evolution and Origin of Life. ITT Roorkee, 21 – 23
March 2013. Abstract.
Chela Flores, J. (2013a). Systems astrobiology for a reliable biomarker on exo-worlds. Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 15, EGU2013-1327-1, 2013 EGU General Assembly, 9 April.
Chela-Flores, J. (2013b). Alla ricerca di vita in ambienti estremi. Invited lecture at the University of Trieste at the Paleontology Course of Professor Nevio Pugliese. 15 May 2013 (75 pp.)
Chela-Flores, J. Andrés Cicuttin, María Liz Crespo and Claudio Tuniz (2013). Biogeochemical fingerprints of life:
From Antarctica ecosystems to the Galilean moons. A videoconference at
BIOGEOSCIENCES-2013. International Conference on Biogeosciences.
Modeling natural environments: From Earth's ecosystems of exoplanets.
Organized by Universidad Central de Las Villas, Cuba, November, 4-7.
Chela-Flores, J. (2013). The ICTP iTunes U: Productions of the ICTP Publications Office:
1. Hace 3.800 millones de años. 2. La búsqueda de nuestros orígenes en
el polvo de las estrellas: Viajes imaginarios en el cosmos y hacia
nuestro pasado. (2011, 2013). AstroCaibarien-2013: National
Astronomy Meeting, Cuba, November 8. Directed by Walter Stoch. The videos in Spanish and English are available at the ICTP PIO - YouTube
Chela-Flores, J. (2013c). Origen y distribucion de la vida en sistemas solares. XVI Jornadas de Biologia y Quimica. Universidad Catolica Andres Bello. Caracas. 27 Noviembre 2013 (a video conference).
Crawford, I.A., Bowles, N., Jaumann, R., Joy, K., Anand, M., Besse, S., Bottke, B., Bray,V., Burchell, M., Carpenter, J., Chaussidon, M., Chela-Flores, J., Coates, A., Cockell, C., D’Arrigo, P., de Vera, J.-P., Falcke, H., Fernandes, V. A., Fritz, J., Gao, Y., Ghent, R., Glotch, T., Grady, M., Grande, M., Grindrod, P., Gutiérrez, J., Hiesinger, H., Klein-Wolt, M., Knapmeyer, M., Kring, D., Magna, T., Marty, B., Monchieri, E., Osinski, G., Smith, A., Spohn, T., Teanby, N., van Gasselt, S., Wieczorek, M., Wright, I., Werner, S., van Westrenen, W., Wilson, L., Wimmer-Schweingruber, R. F., Wuennemann K. and Wurz, P. (2013). Lunar Science as a Window into the Early History of the Solar System, ESA Science and Technology, Cosmic Vision. Science Themes for the L2 and L3 missions. Presentation meeting 3-4 September 2013 Institut Océanographique de Paris Paris, France.
Seckbach, J. and Chela-Flores, J. (2013). Life at extreme solar system environments and beyond: A minisummary. Conference at the Pedagogic Faculty. Catholic University, Ružomberok, Slovakia, March 21 - 22. There is also available a pdf of the ppts.
Seckbach, J. and Chela-Flores, J. (2015). Testing Habitability of Unexplored Environments the Outer Solar System. Instruments, Methods, and Missions for Astrobiology XVII, 9 - 13 August.
Chela-Flores, J. (2016) Video participation in the First Latinamerican Congress of Astrobiology, 3 to 5 August, Lima Perú (I-CLA).
Chela-Flores, J. (2017). Videoconference at Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas, IVIC, Caracas, 31 March, invited by the group of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.
Chela-Flores, J. (2020). Habitabilidad de Mundos Oceanicos en nuestro Sistema Solar. Invited speaker (in Spanish) to the Fifth International Digital Congress in Astrobiology, Bogota, Colombia, 11-14 November.
Sandalinas, J. and Chela-Flores, J. (2021). How Law And Ethics Would Need To Be Adapted To The Discovery Of Extraterrestrial Life? 50th IAA Symposium On The Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). The Next Steps (A4) (Paper ID: 66167). SETI 2: SETI and Society (2). 72nd International Astronautical Congress, Dubai, 25-29 October.
On the question of returning to Europa
Blanc, M.et al, and LAPLACE Team Members of the original proposal (2009). LAPLACE: a mission to Europa and the Jupiter System for ESA's Cosmic Vision Programme, Experimental Astronomy, Volume 23, Issue 3, pp.849-892.
Participation in conferences and workshops.
Participation in publications
Declaration of Interest in science instrumentation in response to the Announcement of Opportunity for Europa Jupiter System Mission (EJSM/Laplace) Cosmic Vision Candidate: Surface Element Penetrators, May 2009
Endorser of "Lunar Science as a Window into the Early History of the Solar System", a White Paper submitted in response to ESA’s Call for proposals for Cosmic Vision L2/3 Science Themes.
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