Participation in some meetings and conferences

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., 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 Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 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, Università 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). Distribución 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.

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.

Collaboration with
the UK Penetrator Consortium
 

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

Robert Gowen, Alan Smith, Richard Ambrosi, Olga Prieto Ballesteros, Simeon Barber, Dave Barnes, Chris Braithwaite, John Bridges, Patrick Brown, Phillip Church, Glyn Collinson, Andrew Coates, Gareth Collins, Ian Crawford, Veronica Dehant, Michele Dougherty, Julian Chela--Flores, Dominic Fortes, George Fraser, Yang Gao, Manuel Grande, Andrew Griffiths, Peter Grindrod, Leonid Gurvits, Axel Hagermann, Toby Hopf, Hauke Hussmann, Ralf Jaumann, Adrian Jones, Geraint Jones, Katherine Joy, Ozgur Karatekin, Günter Kargl, Antonella Macagnano, Anisha Mukherjee, Peter Muller, Ernesto Palomba, Tom Pike, Bill Proud, Derek Pullen, Francois Raulin, Lutz Richter,  Simon Sheridan, Mark Sims, Frank Sohl, Joshua Snape, Jon Sykes, Vincent Tong, Tim Stevenson, Lionel Wilson, Ian Wright, John Zarnecki.

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