Brazil is a country filled with nature's most amazing creatures and plants. But is the ecology in trouble? Maria Carmen Lemos will be at the Douglass building, Room 102, from 12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. today to answer that question and others at the Center for Latin American Studies Brownbag Lunch talk. She will present "Can Science Save Northeast Brazil?" for free.

Looking for some classic ethnic music to spruce up the lunch hour? Head to Du Val Auditorium in the University Medical Center, 1501 N. Campbell Ave., from noon to 1 p.m. to watch The Street Minstrels perform. The concert is part of the Center Stage Concert series established in 1988. For more information, contact Katie Riley at 626-4828.

So the job searches and career counseling slipped your mind once again. It's OK, you can head to the Integrated Learning Center, Room 119, from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. to hear five people from various social service jobs around Tucson speak about how they entered their fields of study and work. Paul Carter from Southwest Rescue Dogs, Kate Coyle from the Travelers Aid Society of Tucson, Dan Gregory of Casa de los Ninos, Daniel Ranieri of La Frontera Center, Inc. and Becky Thomas of Project Match will form a panel. For more information, contact Susan Miller at 621-1408, e-mail her at slmiller@u.arizona.edu or visit the Web site at http://www.career.arizona.edu/students/events/forums.asp.

Just a night after breaking down opera star David Daniels' methods of creativity and music, Ken Foster of UApresents meets in the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering auditorium with Ronald K. Brown of the "Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE Infuses Modern Dance with Kinetic Spirituality" performance to discuss his upcoming performance and where he finds his motivation. Today's "Unlocking the Creative Process" discussion is free. The dance performance Saturday is not, however. For more information about the chat session, call Wade Colwell at 626-4420. For information about the performance, contact the Centennial Hall Box Office at 621-3341.

While we can't prove life exists on other planets, we can be sure that planets exist in other solar systems. How do we know? David Charbonneau of the California Institute of Technology, who used the Hubble Space Telescope to become the first person to view the extrasolar atmosphere of a planet 150 light years away, will be at the Kuiper Space Sciences building, Room 308, to tell us all about it. Contact Norma Navarro at 621-6963, e-mail her at navarro@lpl.arizona.edu or visit the Web site at http://www.lpl.arizona.edu for more information.