Staff Notes Daily Announcements

Throughout this month and next there will be many opportunities to see demonstrations, try the system hands-on before we are live, and bring your real-world scenarios and questions to open labs to receive individual assistance. The complete training schedule is available on our Workday project website at https://operations.ucar.edu/hr/hcm/training-schedule.

Workday Training Schedule for 6/17 - 6/21/19

MONDAY, JUNE 17 At Center Green in CG1-2607:

• 9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.: Intro to Workday demo (Google hangout available)
• 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.: Entering Time & Planned Absences demo (Google hangout available)

At Center Green in CG2-3024:

• 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.: Entering Time & Planned Absences hands-on (register in Connect)
• 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.: Managing Your Team hands-on for supervisors (register in Connect)

TUESDAY, JUNE 18 At Foothills Lab in EOL Atrium (FL1-2198):

• 9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.: Intro to Workday demo
• 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.: Entering Time & Planned Absences demo

At Mesa Lab in the Main Seminar Room (ML-132):

• Noon - 12:45 p.m.: Intro to Workday demo (webcast available)
• 1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.: Entering Time & Planned Absences demo (webcast available)

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19 At Silver Spring in the Large Conference Room (Rm-12836):

• 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.: Intro to Workday demo
• 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.: Entering Time & Planned Absences demo

THURSDAY, JUNE 20 At College Park in the Med Conference Room (Rm-2551):

• 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.: Intro to Workday demo
• 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.: Entering Time & Planned Absences demo
• 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.: Managing Your Team in Workday supervisor demo

Questions about Workday? Visit our Workday User Support site or contact your local change ambassador.

What is Workday?

Workday is changing the way we do HR and payroll by replacing our seven aging and discrete systems with one integrated and comprehensive system. Effective July 1, 2019, everyone in the organization will use Workday to do such tasks as enter time cards, view payslips, enter planned absences (such as Paid Time Off or sick/vacation), and manage our employee information and benefit elections.

CISL will begin phasing in enforcement of the purge policy for files in the /glade/p file space later this year. The project space was released to users on July 1, 2018, with a stated purge policy of 12 months from file create date. With that in place, files would have been purged as soon as July 1 of this year, but users now will have more time to adjust.

Once it is fully implemented, the project space purge policy will remove files 12 months after their last access date. On October 1, 2019, files will be purged if they have not been accessed in 18 months rather than 12 months. On the first Tuesday of each subsequent month, the retention period will be shortened by one month until the 12-month limit is fully implemented in April 2020.

The detailed schedule is provided below. Users will be notified well in advance of any changes to this schedule.

Retention period implementation dates

• 18 months – October 1, 2019
• 17 months – November 5, 2019
• 16 months – December 3, 2019
• 15 months – January 7, 2020
• 14 months – February 4, 2020
• 13 months – March 3, 2020
• 12 months – April 7, 2020

CISL will deploy data management tools this summer that will include utilities to help users identify files that are nearing the purge limits.

Special MMM/RAL Joint Seminar - Thursday, June 27, 2019 - 3:30pm

Speaker: Bert Holtslag

Affiliation: Wageningen University, the Netherlands

Urbanization affects human thermal comfort and health, especially for vulnerable groups such as the elderly and people with established health issues. To mitigate heat stress and accompanying excess mortality there is an urgent need of urban weather observations as well as updated tools for fine scale weather forecasting on short to medium-range time scales. In this presentation first an overview will be given of weather observations made within Dutch cities of variable size. Subsequently, experiences with the setup and use of a high-resolution forecasting system for urban areas will be discussed. The forecasting system is based on the Weather Research & Forecasting (WRF) model, which is used to make forecasts for the city of Amsterdam on a very high spatial resolution of 100 meter and which is driven by extensive and very detailed land surface information. The forecasting system has been used to make 48-hourly daily forecasts for the urban and surrounding areas for the summer period of 2015. The forecasts are validated with observations that were taken at 25 automated weather stations at different locations within the city of Amsterdam. Validation is done for parameters that are important for the well-being of citizens in cities such as the temperature, the evening temperature, the humidity and Wet Bulb Globe Temperatures (WGBT). The potential of future use and improvements of the forecasting system will be discussed.

Refreshments: 3:15 PM

24 - 26 September 2019, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, Colorado

This meeting celebrates Michael Thompson's seminal work on solar and stellar physics, as well as his major contributions to the development of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and marks his untimely death in October 2018.

The conference will focus on dynamical aspects of the sun and stars, based on the large amount data available on solar and stellar oscillations, and the extensive and detailed modelling now becoming feasible. By combining observations, seismic analysis and modelling we hope that this will be a fitting memorial for a close colleague and friend, much missed.

The planning of the conference has progressed, with the selection of the following invited speakers:

Sarbani Basu, Yale University

Earl Bellinger, Stellar Astrophysics Centre, Aarhus University

Othman Benomar, NYU Abu Dhabi

Aaron Birch, Aaron Birch, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research

Sacha Brun, CEA, Saclay

William Chaplin, University of Birmingham

Margarida Cunha, Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences, Porto

Yvonne Elsworth, University of Birmingham

Jim Fuller, Caltech

Pascale Garaud, UC Santa Cruz

Shravan Hanasoge, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

Rachel Howe, University of Birmingham

Dan Huber, Institute for Astronomy (IfA), University of Hawaii

Steve Kawaler, Iowa State University, Ames

Scott McIntosh, NCAR/HAO

Mark Rast, University of Colorado, Boulder

Markus Roth, Leibnitz Institute for Solar Physics (KIS), Freiburg

Angela Santos, Space Science Institute, Boulder

The conference is also open for contributed talks and posters. We note that we plan to issue proceedings from the conference, including papers based on all invited and contributed talks as well as posters.

Deadlines:

15 July: early registration, and contributed talks and abstracts

For further information and registration, see

https://www2.hao.ucar.edu/MJTWorkshop2019/