Bill Abbett is a barista of the Surface Links Team and is also a member of the Convection, Dynamo and Model Integration Teams. Bill has a variety of interests in the field of astrophysics including the formation and evolution of magnetic fields in the convective interior of the Sun and other stars; the dynamic connection between magnetic fields existing below the visible surface of the Sun and those observed in the solar corona; the physics of magnetically driven eruptions in the corona (the principal drivers of space weather here at earth); and the transport of radiation in the optically thick layers of stellar atmospheres during flares. He co-developed the global radiative-MHD code RADMHD, which is designed to evolve active region-scale magnetic fields through the solar convection zone-to-corona system.