The LTSER Zone Atelier Alpes covers the entire French Alpine massif, as defined by the Alpine Convention. This enables to cover the broad range of climatic and land use gradients affecting the alpine socio-ecosystems.

The platform hosts several workshop sites dedicated to the long term monitoring of social-ecological systems : one GLORIA site (FR-AME), a large set of permanent plots located along several elevational transects (ORCHAMP project), a network of sentinel alpine pastures, etc.

Infrastructures regroup all facilities and observatories maintained by the Univ. Grenoble Alpes. More intensive research investigations concern the LTSER ’Lautaret-Oisans’ including the Station Alpine J. Fourier, an alpine field station member of the Anaee network and two master sites (1) the ’Arves-Mont Blanc’ master site ranges from urbanized valleys to the highest summit of Europe (2) the ’alpine trench Grenoble-Chambéry-Annecy’ master site is a large area encompassing the urbanized valleys of the western border of the French Alps (Grenoble-Chambéry-Annecy) and nearby mountain ranges (Vercors, Chartreuse, Belledonne & Bauges).