It is named after former University of Ottawa Faculty of Science dean André E. Lalonde, who died of cancer in 2012.
It replaced the IsoTrace facility at the University of Toronto and cost around 10 million dollars.
[1] In 2017, the laboratory will host the 14th annual Accelerator Mass Spectrometry conference.
[2] It also has a 200 sample ion source, a high resolution, 120° injection magnet, a 90° high energy analysis magnet (mass-energy product 350 MeV-AMU), a 65°, 1.7 m radius electric analyzer and a 2 channel gas ionization detector.
The executive committee of the facility is composed of three University of Ottawa professors: William Kieser and Ian Clark.