Workshop: Life in the Sub-Surface: Habitats, Species, Metabolism and Survival Strategies

This meeting will focus on the following subjects:

– Characteristics of (potential) subsurface habitats on Earth and beyond
– Early evolution of subsurface life including its possible role in emergence of life
– Diversity, metabolism and survival strategies of subsurface life on Earth
– Possibility of extraterrestrial subsurface life and its detection.
– Gaps in the knowledge about subsurface life
– Subsurface environments and extremophiles on the Azores.

Very proficient speakers have been invited to the workshop. It will be held at the very modern Centro Cultural e de Congressos offering ideal setting. The location Angra is a picturesque city and has plenty of good restaurants and clean and affordable hotels with good services. The EAI project team “Astrobiology and Art” will organise a multimedia event on the first day. There will be a speleological society “Os Montanheiros” will organise an exhibition of life in Azorean lava caves. This workshop is organised by the European Astrobiology Institute.

The deadline for registration and abstract submission is July 1, 2023.