NOTE: This blog was written by Skylar Bayer, a graduate student at the University of Maine, working on a Sea Grant-funded project with Dr. Rick Wahle of University of Maine, and Dr. Pete Countway of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences. The main objective of our project is to develop a qPCR survey technique as a quick and read more Scallop survey in a tube: Skylar Bayer is developing a molecular technique to detect scallop spawning events in the field