Fort Mitchell resident, Brandt Coleman has been named a SeaWorld 2017 Environmental Excellence Award recipient.
For over 20 years, the SeaWorld & Busch Gardens Environmental Excellence Awards have celebrated the inspiring stories of young conservationists.
Coleman was selected from a nationwide candidate pool. Brandt was invited to SeaWorld for a three day program which included the opportunity to join the SeaWorld education team for behind the scenes tours, animal interactions, and informative presentations.
He also received a $1,000 scholarship and ongoing opportunities with SeaWorld.
Brandt is a scuba Divemaster and Rescue Diver who served as an environmental educator aboard Pete Seeger’s flagship, The Clearwater, and as a summer naturalist and dive intern at Newport Aquarium.
Recipient of the Etscorn International Research Scholarship, Brandt spent a summer as a research scuba diver working with the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico studying cenotes in the Yucatan Peninsula.
While on a 2016-2017 yearlong U.S. State Department fellowship in Germany, Brandt completed a Baltic Sea research internship at Thünen-Instituts für Ostseefischerei and with the Universität Rostock Institut für Biowissenschaften.
He continues his environmental research, working with the Kentucky Karst Conservancy studying anthropogenic effects occurring in cave systems in Kentucky. Coleman was also named a 2017 Clinton Global Initiative Scholar and was invited to present at the 10th annual CGI seminar at Northeastern University in Boston in October.
He is a senior at the University of Louisville and a graduate of Beechwood Independent.
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