I do. A lot of my research focuses on work in wild organisms in their natural environment. However, we do bring certain questions into the lab, largely related to the impact of stress on fish and the impact of climate change. We can show, within a laboratory setting, what amount of a given stressor may impose stress and may result in mortality in a lab, and we can go out and measure those kinds of effects in fish in the field.
Most of my work is currently known in the area of pathogens, but a lot of my program also looks at environmental stress and climate change. We use a combination of laboratory study and field-based observations.
It would be brilliant to be able to do large-scale manipulations in the field, where one could manipulate a factor that one thinks may be causing mortality. This type of work has been done with sea lice in Europe, where they have prophylactically treated juvenile wild salmon.